Table VI.

Results from the sequential meta-analyses of the peptic ulcers data

		Fixed	Random	Approx semi-Bayes IG(1.5, 0.08)	Approx semi-Bayes IG(1.5, 1)	Semi-Bayes IG(1.5, 0.08)	Semi-Bayes IG(1.5, 1)
At stopping	Number of trials	4	11	11	15	9	15
	Zend/Vend	0.77	0.82	0.82	0.89	0.61	0.90
	Last
	confidence	0.14, 1.39	0.014, 1.63	0.042, 1.59	0.032, 1.75	0.015, 1.20	0.0054, 1.79
	interval
		0	0.55	0.52	0.74	0.17	0.79
PEST analysis	P-value	0.0055	0.0052	0.0041	0.0048	0.0161	0.0039
	Median	0.74	0.81	0.82	0.81	0.60	0.84
	unbiased estimate of µ [odds ratio] Confidence	[2.1]	[2.2]	[2.3]	[2.2]	[1.8]	[2.3]
	interval for µ	0.22, 1.24	0.24, 1.38	0.26, 1.37	0.25, 1.37	0.11, 1.09	0.27, 1.41