Add Hartung-Knapp-Sidik-Jonkman method for conducting random-effects meta-analysis

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An R package for combining evidence from multiple sources (e.g. multiple data sites)

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Add Hartung-Knapp-Sidik-Jonkman method for conducting random-effects meta-analysis #1

Closed pbr6cornell closed 6 years ago

pbr6cornell commented 6 years ago

This has been shown to be less biased than Dersimonian-Laird.

See: IntHout J, Ioannidis JP, Borm GF. The Hartung-Knapp-Sidik-Jonkman method for random effects meta-analysis is straightforward and considerably outperforms the standard DerSimonian-Laird method. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2014 Feb 18;14:25. doi: 10.1186/1471-2288-14-25.