Metanálise para Modelos de Regressão

Abstract

Meta analysis has been widely used in medical studies especially in systematic reviews of randomized clinical trials. For regression models the technique is still very scarce and limited. Usually it is just a measure based on the average point estimates of dierent studies, losing a lot of information of the original data. Currently it becomes increasingly important to use the meta-analysis to summarize the same objective studies, due to the advancement of science and the desire to use the smallest number of human subjects in clinical trials. Using a meta-analytic Bayesian measure, the objective is to propose a generic and ecient method to perform meta-analysis in regression models.