• 1. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Clinical Research Center of Cancer, Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin 300060, China;
  • 2. Tianjin Women's and Children's Health Center, Tianjin 3zgxzyxzz-16-2-223, China;
  • 3. Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shandong University, Jinan 250012, China;
  • 4. Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, China;
SONGFeng-ju, Email: songfengju@163.com
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According to the heterogeneity between dose-response data across different studies and the potential nonlinear trend within the dose-response relationship, there are several models for trend estimation from summarized dose-response data, with applications to meta-analysis. However, up to now, there is no guideline of conducting a metaanalysis of dose-response data. After summarizing the previous papers, this paper focuses on how to select the right model for conducting a meta-analysis of dose-response data based on the heterogeneity across different studies, the goodness of fit, and the P value of overall association between exposure and event. Then a preliminary statistical process of conducting a meta-analysis of dose-response data is proposed.

Citation: HUANGYu-bei, LIWei-qin, XIBo, RONGYing, SONGFeng-ju, CHENKe-xin. Model Selection and Statistical Process of Meta-analysis of Dose-response Data. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2016, 16(2): 223-228. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.20160035 Copy

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