Assignment 3
Assignment 3
QUESTION 1 (1 point)
a) Statistical combination of the results of two or more studies
QUESTION 2 (1 point)
Figure 2 of the Jordan et al., meta-analysis depicts a forest plot illustrating the estimates of the association between hysterectomy and ovarian cancer. How many of the individual studies (in figure 2) reported statistically significant reductions in the risk of ovarian cancer in women with hysterectomy, compared to women without hysterectomy? Ans) There were 20 individual studies that reported statistically significant reductions in the risk of ovarian cancer in women with hysterectomy, compared to women without hysterectomy.
QUESTION 3 (1 point)
How would you interpret the overall summary estimate (relative ...
