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Regression can be used for the analysis of heterogeneous meta-analyses, for which an overall pooling procedure is pretty meaningless. In this chapter two recently published meta-analyses from the authors are used as examples of exploratory purposes, the assessment of confounding, and of interaction between predictors on the outcome.
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More information and stepwise analyses of meta-regression models are given in Statistical applied to clinical studies 5th edition, Chap. 34, Springer Heidelberg Germany, 2012, from the same authors.
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Cleophas, T.J., Zwinderman, A.H. (2017). Meta-regression. In: Modern Meta-Analysis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55895-0_9
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