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    Should RECOVERY have used response adaptive randomisation? Evidence from a simulation study

    The Randomised Evaluation of COVID-19 Therapy (RECOVERY) trial is aimed at addressing the urgent need to find effective treatments for patients hospitalised with suspected or confirmed COVID-19. The trial has ...

    Tamir Sirkis, Benjamin Jones, Jack Bowden in BMC Medical Research Methodology (2022)

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    The use of single armed observational data to closing the gap in otherwise disconnected evidence networks: a network meta-analysis in multiple myeloma

    Network meta-analysis (NMA) allows for the estimation of comparative effectiveness of treatments that have not been studied in head-to-head trials; however, relative treatment effects for all interventions can...

    Susanne Schmitz, Áine Maguire, James Morris in BMC Medical Research Methodology (2018)

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    Confidence intervals for the between-study variance in random-effects meta-analysis using generalised heterogeneity statistics: should we use unequal tails?

    Confidence intervals for the between study variance are useful in random-effects meta-analyses because they quantify the uncertainty in the corresponding point estimates. Methods for calculating these confiden...

    Dan Jackson, Jack Bowden in BMC Medical Research Methodology (2016)

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    Quantifying, displaying and accounting for heterogeneity in the meta-analysis of RCTs using standard and generalised Qstatistics

    Clinical researchers have often preferred to use a fixed effects model for the primary interpretation of a meta-analysis. Heterogeneity is usually assessed via the well known Q and I 2 statistics, along with the ...

    Jack Bowden, Jayne F Tierney, Andrew J Copas in BMC Medical Research Methodology (2011)