Andy Field papers:
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/andyf/teaching/pg/pgmenu.htm

Statistical Methods (Statistical Methods.pdf)
John Deeks for Cochrane Group

   I couldn't find the file in Cochrane's Web site anymore. A more
complete version of this document can be found in Deeks JJ, Altman DG,
Bradburn MJ. "Statistical Methods for examining heterogeneity and
combining results from several studies in meta-analysis" In: Egger M,
Smith GD and Altman DG. SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS IN HEALTH CARE. BMJ Books 2nd
Ed, 2001. 

An Overview of Meta-Analysis:
Statistical and Methodological Issues in Randomized Clinical Trials
Lehana Thabane
  http://www.lehanathabane.com/733/images/Meta-AnalysisClassNotes.pdf
  http://www.lehanathabane.com/733/images/examples-session1.pdf

MetaAnalysis: Overview
Richards L Tweedie
  http://www.biostat.umn.edu/~tweedie/documents/meta3.pdf

Meta-Analysis Notes
Jamie DeCoster
  http://www.stat-help.com/meta.pdf

Meta-Analysis: Methods of Accumulating Results Across Research Domains
Larry Lyons
  http://www.lyonsmorris.com/lyons/MetaAnalysis.htm

Another recommended tutorial (Web based), can be found here:
How to Conduct a Meta-Analysis
By Arindam Basu MD MPH
  http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec1171/index.htm

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Good references from on-line journals:

http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/127/9/820
Quantitative Synthesis in Systematic Reviews
Annals of Internal Medicine 1 November 1997. 127:820-826.
Joseph Lau, MD; John P.A. Ioannidis, MD; and Christopher H. Schmid, PhD

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/309/6957/789
BMJ 1994;309:789-792 (24 September)
Systematic Reviews: Meta-analysis and its problems
H J Eysenck

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/309/6964/1286
BMJ 1994;309:1286-1291 (12 November)
Systematic Reviews: Identifying relevant studies for
systematic reviews
K Dickersin, R Scherer, C Lefebvre

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/309/6965/1351
BMJ 1994;309:1351-1355 (19 November)
Systematic Review: Why sources of heterogeneity in metaanalysis
should be investigated

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/310/6982/752
BMJ 1995;310:752-754 (25 March)
Misleading meta-analysis
Matthias Egger, George Davey Smith

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/313/7059/702
BMJ 1996;313:702-703 (21 September)
Growing pains of meta-analysis
Ida Sim, Mark A Hlatky

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/313/7059/735
BMJ 1996;313:735-738 (21 September)
The relation between treatment benefit and underlying risk in meta-analysis
Stephen J Sharp, Simon G Thompson, Douglas G Altman

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/315/7109/629
BMJ 1997;315:629-634 (13 September)
Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
Matthias Egger, George Davey Smith, Martin Schneider, Christoph Minder

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/315/7109/635
BMJ 1997;315:635-640 (13 September)
Impact of covert duplicate publication on meta-analysis: a case study
Martin R Tramr, D John M Reynolds, R Andrew Moore, Henry J McQuay

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/315/7119/1371
BMJ 1997;315:1371-1374 (22 November)
Meta-analysis: Potentials and promise
Matthias Egger, George Davey Smith

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/315/7121/1533
BMJ 1997;315:1533-1537 (6 December)
Meta-analysis: Principles and procedures
Matthias Egger, George Davey Smith, Andrew N Phillips

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/315/7122/1610
BMJ 1997;315:1610-1614 (13 December)
Meta-analysis: Beyond the grand mean?
George Davey Smith, Matthias Egger, Andrew N Phillips

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/316/7124/61
BMJ 1998;316:61-66 (3 January)
Meta-analysis bias in location and selection of studies
Matthias Egger, George Davey Smith

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/316/7125/140
BMJ 1998;316:140-144 (10 January)
Meta-analysis Spurious precision? Meta-analysis of observational studies
Matthias Egger, Martin Schneider, George Davey Smith

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/316/7126/221
BMJ 1998;316:221-225 (17 January)
Meta-analysis: Unresolved issues and future developments
George Davey Smith, Matthias Egger

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/content/vol316/issue7126/fulltext/supplemental/221/
BMJ 1998; 316:7126 (17 January)
Meta-analysis:Meta-Analysis Software
Matthias Egger, Jonathan AC Sterne, George Davey Smith 

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/320/7249/1574
BMJ 2000;320:1574-1577 (10 June) 
Empirical assessment of effect of publication bias on meta-analyses 
AJ Sutton, SJ Duval, RL Tweedie KR Abrams and R Jones 

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/323/7304/101
BMJ 2001;323:101-105 (14 July)
Systematic reviews in health care:Investigating and dealing with publication and
other biases in meta-analysis 
Jonathan A C Sterne, Matthias Egger, George Davey Smith 

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/327/7414/557
BMJ 2003;327:55760 (September)
Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses
Julian P T Higgins, Simon G Thompson, Jonathan J Deeks, Douglas G Altman

