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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
卷 190, 期 2, 页码 336-340出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwaa205
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cohort studies; logistic regression; meta-analysis; regression analysis
Meta-analyses combine information from a set of studies, but in settings with sparse data, bias in results and worsened confidence interval coverage may occur.
Meta-analyses are undertaken to combine information from a set of studies, often in settings where some of the individual study-specific estimates are based on relatively small study samples. Finite sample bias may occur when maximum likelihood estimates of associations are obtained by fitting logistic regression models to sparse data sets. Here we show that combining information from small studies by undertaking a meta-analytical summary of logistic regression estimates can propagate such sparse-data bias. In simulations, we illustrate 2 challenges encountered in meta-analyses of logistic regression results in settings of sparse data: 1) bias in the summary meta-analytical result and 2) confidence interval coverage that can worsen rather than improve, in terms of being less than nominal, as the number of studies in the meta-analysis increases.
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