A re-evaluation of fixed effect(s) meta-analysis

Slides [.pdf] for my talk at the RSS discussion of my 2017 paper with Julian Higgins and Thomas Lumley

Some further material:

Many R packages for meta-analysis are described in the relevant R Task View. The Cochrane collaboration also provides the stand-alone RevMan package. Any general-purpose meta-analysis software can be expected to provide fixed-effects analysis.