Wil Vander Lugt, the son of Amanda Adcock and Chad Vander Lugt, was the state's first baby born in 2015. He arrived at 12:48 a.m. at MaineGeneral in Waterville.
1 Meta-regression is a tool used in meta-analysis to examine the impact of moderator variables on study effect size using regression-based techniques. 2  Meta-regression is more effective at this task than are standard regression techniques.
Thus, statistical techniques for combining data from several studies with similar hypotheses have become increasingly popular in epidemiology. The application of systematic review methodology and the tools of meta-analysis are now applied as key evidence-based methods in all areas of epidemiology.