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MRC Biostatistics Unit,
Institute of Public Health,
University Forvie Site,
Robinson Way,
Cambridge. UK.
CB2 0SR

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Research Interests:

Methodological development, evaluation and dissemination in areas of meta-analysis, systematic reviews and evidence synthesis more generally. Particular interests in investigating heterogeneity, individual participant data, Bayesian approaches, sequential methods, missing data and multiple treatments meta-analysis, with applications in clinical trials of medical and social care interventions and in human genome epidemiology.

Selected Recent Publications:

Borenstein M, Hedges LV, Higgins JPT, Rothstein HR. Introduction to Meta-analysis. John Wiley & Sons, 2009. ISBN 978-0470057247.

Higgins JPT, Thompson SG, Spiegelhalter DJ. A re-evaluation of random-effects meta-analysis. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 2009; 172: 137-159;

Higgins JPT, Green S, editors. Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions. John Wiley & Sons, 2008. ISBN 978-0470057964.

Sagoo GS, Tatt I, Salanti G, Butterworth AS, Sarwar N, van Maarle M, Juema JW, Wiman B, Kastelein JJP, Bennet A, de Faire U, Danesh J, Higgins JPT. Seven lipoprotein lipase gene polymorphisms, lipid fractions, and coronary disease: a HuGE association review and meta-analysis. American Journal of Epidemiology 2008; 168: 1233-1246.

Higgins JPT, White IR, Anzures-Cabrera J. Meta-analysis of skewed data: Combining results reported on log-transformed or raw scales. Statistics in Medicine 2008; 27: 6072-6092.

Salanti G, Higgins JPT. Meta-analysis of genetic association studies under different inheritance models using data reported as merged genotypes. Statistics in Medicine 2008; 27: 754-777;

Sutton AJ, Higgins JPT. Recent developments in meta-analysis. Statistics in Medicine 2008; 27: 625-650;