Figure 2.
Timeline of existing meta-analysis methods showing the evolution of the meta-analysis model development. (Fisher [8], MinP [19] Stouffer [18], MaxP [21], FE [37], Good [13], weighted z-score [33], RE [10, 20], RankProd/Ranksum [15, 41], adaptive weighted Fisher [16], RE2 [22], BE [10] and roP [17]).