L'Abbé Plot

 

Menu locations: Analysis_Meta-Analysis_Odds Ratio, Analysis_Meta-Analysis_Relative Risk.

 

This plots the event rate in the experimental (intervention) group against the event rate in the control group, as an aid to exploring the heterogeneity of effect estimates within a meta-analysis (Song, 1999; L'Abbé et al. 1987).

 

 

See also: meta-analysis and Forest plot.

 

 

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