From: A comparison of analytic approaches for individual patient data meta-analyses with binary outcomes
Performance measuresd | Data generation | ||||
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Random-study and -treatment effect (Eq. 1) | Stratified-study effect (Eq. 2) | ||||
Stratified-intercept | Random-intercept | Stratified-intercept | Random-intercept | ||
(τ 20 , τ 21 ) = (4, 4)e | AB (\( \beta \) 1) | 0.04 (0.02, 0.06) | 0.03 (0.02, 0.06) | 0.04 (0.02, 0.06) | 0.04 (0.01, 0.06) |
RMSE (\( \beta \) 1) | 1.11 (0.55, 1.94) | 1.07 (0.49, 1.84) | 1.15 (0.58, 1.98) | 1.11 (0.58, 1.87) | |
Coverage (\( \beta \) 1) | 95.2 | 92.3 | 92.3 | 93.6 | |
AB (τ 21 ) | 0.13 (0.06, 0.20) | 0.12 (0.06, 0.20) | 0.11 (0.05,0.18) | 0.22 (0.20, 0.25) | |
RMSE (τ 21 ) | 4.05 (1.85,6.25) | 3.87 (1.81, 6.21) | 3.39 (1.57,5.56) | 6.99 (6.20, 7.80) | |
Coverage (τ 21 ) | 53.7 | 78.9 | 89.8 | 1.0 | |
Convergence | 63.8 | 98.3 | 99.7 | 89.9 | |
(τ 20 , τ 21 ) = (1, 1) | AB (\( \beta \) 1) | 0.02 (0.01, 0.03) | 0.02 (0.01, 0.03) | 0.02 (0.01, 0.03) | 0.02 (0.01, 0.03) |
RMSE (\( \beta \) 1) | 0.63 (0.29, 1.07) | 0.59 (0.29, 1.05) | 0.63 (0.30, 1.05) | 0.63 (0.30, 1.03) | |
Coverage (\( \beta \) 1) | 91.8 | 91.9 | 93.1 | 93.3 | |
AB (τ 21 ) | 0.03 (0.02, 0.06) | 0.03 (0.02, 0.05) | 0.03 (0.02, 0.05) | 0.02 (0.01, 0.03) | |
RMSE (τ 21 ) | 1.06 (0.52, 1.74) | 1.03 (0.49, 1.68) | 0.98 (0.48, 1.69) | 0.57 (0.27, 1.00) | |
Coverage (τ 21 ) | 86.3 | 82.5 | 87.9 | 76.5 | |
Convergence | 95.3 | 96.5 | 99.2 | 88.8 |