"Module 6: Analysing the data"
"Module 6: Analysing the data"
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.