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Facilitates reliable meta-analytic inference with few studies; extends statistical tools for cardiovascular researchers.
This paper focuses on inferences about the overall treatment effect in meta-analysis with normally distributed responses based on the concepts of generalized inference. A refined generalized pivotal quantity based on t distribution is presented and simulation study shows that it can provide confidence intervals with satisfactory coverage probabilities and perform hypothesis testing with satisfactory type-I error control at very small sample sizes.
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