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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jul 30.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Methods Med Res. 2020 Jan 30;29(9):2520–2537. doi: 10.1177/0962280219889080

Table 1:

ARE of the methods when applied to estimate the sample means and standard deviations of the 58 primary studies. In each column, the ARE value closest to zero is in bold. The presented ARE values were rounded to two decimal places.

ARE for x^ ARE for s^
S 1 S 2 S 3 S 1 S 2 S 3
Luo/Wan −0.14 −0.15 −0.10 −0.15 0.01 −0.08
QE 0.05 0.06 0.00 0.15 0.34 0.08
BC −0.08 0.00 0.00 −0.25 0.06 0.11