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From: Comparison of statistical methods used to meta-analyse results from interrupted time series studies: an empirical study

Fig. 2

Depiction of the analysis methods used in this empirical study. *The estimation methods for ITS analysis are listed in order of preference, i.e. REML is used whenever it converges and the estimated autocorrelation is between -1 and 1, while PW followed by OLS are used in the case of non-convergence. ITS interrupted time series, REML restricted maximum likelihood, PW Prais-Winsten, OLS ordinary least squares, DL DerSimonian and Laird, WT Wald-type, HKSJ Hartung-Knapp/Sidik-Jonkman

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