A Statistical Method for Synthesizing Meta-Analyses

Table 2

Effect estimates of different types with lower limits (LL) and upper limits (UL) of 95% confidence interval (CI). Summary effect estimates are calculated based on a fixed-effects model for three sets of studies.

Study no.	𝜃𝑚	95% CI		Study no.	𝜃OR	95% CI		Study no.	𝜃𝑟	95% CI
		LL	UL			LL	UL			LL	UL
1	0.52	0.08	0.98	10	−0.97	−1.82	−0.14	18	0.04	−0.12	0.21
2	0.43	−0.04	0.95	11	0.86	−0.14	1.98	19	0.12	−0.03	0.27
3	0.37	0.00	0.75	12	0.14	−0.89	1.22	20	0.55	0.15	0.80
4	0.10	−0.30	0.49	13	2.09	0.93	3.45	21	−0.07	−0.31	0.19
5	0.35	0.00	0.70	14	0.40	−1.06	1.93	22	0.18	−0.26	0.56
6	0.70	0.18	1.25	15	0.55	−0.14	1.27	23	0.23	0.00	0.44
7	0.54	0.04	1.06	16	0.36	0.00	0.78	24	0.11	−0.14	0.34
8	1.19	0.49	2.02	17	0.14	−0.70	1.02	25	0.21	−0.14	0.52
9	0.52	0.06	1.01					26	−0.04	−0.15	0.07