A novel estimator of between-study variance in random-effects models

Abstract Background With the rapid development of high-throughput sequencing technologies, many datasets on the same biological subject are generated. A meta-analysis is an approach that combines results from different studies on the same topic. The random-effects model in a meta-analysis enables th...

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Main Authors: Nan Wang, Jun Zhang, Li Xu, Jing Qi, Beibei Liu, Yiyang Tang, Yinan Jiang, Liang Cheng, Qinghua Jiang, Xunbo Yin, Shuilin Jin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-02-01
Series:BMC Genomics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-020-6500-9