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Outliers in meta-analysis: an asymmetric trimmed-mean approach [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 The adaptive asymmetric trimmed mean is a known way of estimating central location, usually in conjunction with the bootstrap. It is here modified and applied to meta-analysis, as a way of dealing with outlying results by down-weighting the corresponding studies.
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CALIDAD DE VIDA RELACIONADA CON LA SALUD EN TUBERCULOSIS: REVISIÓN SISTEMÁTICA Y METANÁLISIS
Infectio, 2018 Objective: To perform a metanalysis on the effect of the tuberculosis on the dimensions of the SF-36. Methods: Systematic review and meta-analysis, following the PRISMA guide.
Natalia Giraldo
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Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2019 Introduction: Hospitals are the most important infrastructures of any society. The hospital emergency department is one of the most important wards of hospitals in response to disasters.
Mosayeb Kazemzadeh +4 more
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A Unified Method for Improved Inference in Random-effects Meta-analysis [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 Random-effects meta-analyses have been widely applied in evidence synthesis for various types of medical studies. However, standard inference methods (e.g. restricted maximum likelihood estimation) usually underestimate statistical errors and possibly provide highly overconfident results under realistic situations; for instance, coverage probabilities ...
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Topic Scaling: A Joint Document Scaling -- Topic Model Approach To Learn Time-Specific Topics [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 This paper proposes a new methodology to study sequential corpora by implementing a two-stage algorithm that learns time-based topics with respect to a scale of document positions and introduces the concept of Topic Scaling which ranks learned topics within the same document scale.
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Topics Emerged in the Biomedical Field and Their Characteristics [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 This study aims to reveal what kind of topics emerged in the biomedical domain by retrospectively analyzing newly added MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) terms from 2001 to 2010 and how they have been used for indexing since their inclusion in the thesaurus. The goal is to investigate if the future trend of a new topic depends on what kind of topic it is
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Quantifying replicability in systematic reviews: the r-value [PDF]
arXiv, 2015 In order to assess the effect of a health care intervention, it is useful to look at an ensemble of relevant studies. The Cochrane Collaboration's admirable goal is to provide systematic reviews of all relevant clinical studies, in order to establish whether or not there is a conclusive evidence about a specific intervention.
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Climate-induced signatures in the zooplankton communities: a meta-analysis at a European scale.
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2014 Several recent studies have revealed the impacts of the climate variability in the dynamic of zooplankton in different estuarine ecosystems, imposing a need for more and continued global studies.
Sónia Cotrim Marques +8 more
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Systematic review and meta-analysis of target terapies for the treatment of metastatic renal cancer
International Brazilian Journal of Urology, 2013 Objectives At present there are several drugs for the treatment of advanced renal cell carcinoma (ARCC). The main objective of this work was to perform a systematic review (SR) and meta-analysis (MA) of clinical randomized studies that compared target ...
Marcela Duran +3 more
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Topic-Aware Multi-turn Dialogue Modeling [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 In the retrieval-based multi-turn dialogue modeling, it remains a challenge to select the most appropriate response according to extracting salient features in context utterances. As a conversation goes on, topic shift at discourse-level naturally happens through the continuous multi-turn dialogue context. However, all known retrieval-based systems are
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