2018年09月27日下午，应金沙威尼斯欢乐娱人城和岭南统计科学研究院的邀请，在行政东前座412会议室，浸会大学童铁军教授作了题为“Statistical Meta-analysis and Its Application in Evidence-based Medicine” 的报告——暨“羊城讲坛”第四十六讲，旨在进一步提高年轻学者及研究生对研究的理解。此次讲座由崔霞教授主持，相关专业的师生参加了此次讲座。

Abstract:

Evidence-based medicine is attracting increasing attention to improve decision making in medical practice. Meta-analysis is a statistical technique widely used in evidence-based medicine for analytically combining the findings from independent clinical trials to provide an overall estimation of a treatment effectiveness. In this talk, I will first give an overview of the history and the main procedure of conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis. I will then present some statistical challenges in meta-analysis, and provide our new developments in this direction to advance the literature. Our proposed methods not only improve the existing ones significantly but also share the same virtue of the simplicity. They are also capable to serve as ‘‘rules of thumb’’ and will be widely applied in evidence-based medicine.