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Yashika Kapoor and Priya Chetty on November 1, 2017 No Comments
The meta-analysis results involve basic summary statistics, forest plots and model statistics. Besides these, also funnel plot can be obtained to study publication bias amongst the studies in the analysis.
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Yashika Kapoor and Priya Chetty on November 1, 2017 No Comments
This article helps in importing and loading data from other programs such as Ms-Excel. It will take up the case example of Cholecystitis and gallbladder carcinoma illustrated in manual data entry procedure.
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Yashika Kapoor and Priya Chetty on October 31, 2017 No Comments
Following the discussion on the significance of effect sizes, and selecting suitable data entry formats, this next step is to understand different software functionalities through appropriate case studies.
The discussion surrounding meta analysis has effect size at the prime spot. It is the magnitude or size of an effect and usually refers to treatment effect in comprehensive meta analysis (CMA).
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Yashika Kapoor and Priya Chetty on October 30, 2017 2 Comments
The earlier article (Introduction to CMA) gave a brief overview of the various functionalities offered by the CMA software. This article acquaints the user with the procedure of selecting appropriate data entry formats.
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Yashika Kapoor and Priya Chetty on October 22, 2017 No Comments
Findings in meta-analysis are integrated by the means of effect sizes also known as the currency of meta-analysis. They span the group of ‘indices’. An index is a statistical measure which is a compound representation of the several observations in the study. It gives a general dimension to the phenomenon.
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Yashika Kapoor and Chandrika Kapagunta on June 27, 2017 1 Comment
Radioactive substances occur naturally in the environment and they emit small amounts of radiations. However, anthropogenic activities produce high levels of radioactive materials that are released into the environment causing pollution.
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Yashika Kapoor and Chandrika Kapagunta on June 16, 2017 No Comments
Mercury bioremediation processes as mercury occurs naturally in the environment and is found in both elemental inorganic and organic forms. It generally occurs in two oxidation states, Hg+1 and Hg+2.