Successfully completed (120-160 minutes of learning) through "Module 6: Analysing the data" in an online course entitled “Cochrane Interactive Learning" in October 2024. 

Module 6 has been written and compiled by:

Dario Sambunjak, Miranda Cumpston and Chris Watts from Cochrane Central Executive Team., with the expert input from the Cochrane Statistical Methods Group.

The module instructed us to: 

- Recognize characteristics of different effect measures;

- Identify ways in which continuous outcomes and their comparisons can be expressed;

- Define a meta-analysis;

- Decide when it is appropriate to conduct a meta-analysis;

- Identify and understand the data presented in forest plots;

- Identify heterogeneity between included studies;

- Consider heterogeneity appropriately when making decisions about analysis;

- Interpret the results of subgroup analysis;

- Consider the analysis of other (non-standard) data in included studies;

- and recognize non-standard study designs.