The prevalence of loneliness across 113 countries: systematic review and meta-analysis

DL Surkalim, M Luo, R Eres, K Gebel, J Van Buskirk… - bmj, 2022 - bmj.com
Objectives To identify data availability, gaps, and patterns for population level prevalence of
loneliness globally, to summarise prevalence estimates within World Health Organization …

Rates of mental health service utilization by children and adolescents in schools and other common service settings: A systematic review and meta-analysis

MT Duong, EJ Bruns, K Lee, S Cox, J Coifman… - … and Policy in Mental …, 2021 - Springer
A meta-analysis was conducted to examine the relative rates of youth mental health service
utilization across settings among the general population and among those with elevated …

Exome and genome sequencing for pediatric patients with congenital anomalies or intellectual disability: an evidence-based clinical guideline of the American …

K Manickam, MR McClain, LA Demmer, S Biswas… - Genetics in …, 2021 - nature.com
Purpose To develop an evidence-based clinical practice guideline for the use of exome and
genome sequencing (ES/GS) in the care of pediatric patients with one or more congenital …

Cancer risk across mammals

O Vincze, F Colchero, JF Lemaître, DA Conde… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer is a ubiquitous disease of metazoans, predicted to disproportionately affect larger,
long-lived organisms owing to their greater number of cell divisions, and thus increased …

Analysing continuous proportions in ecology and evolution: A practical introduction to beta and Dirichlet regression

JC Douma, JT Weedon - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Proportional data, in which response variables are expressed as percentages or fractions of
a whole, are analysed in many subfields of ecology and evolution. The scale‐independence …

Violating the normality assumption may be the lesser of two evils

U Knief, W Forstmeier - Behavior Research Methods, 2021 - Springer
When data are not normally distributed, researchers are often uncertain whether it is
legitimate to use tests that assume Gaussian errors, or whether one has to either model a …

Global synthesis of conservation studies reveals the importance of small habitat patches for biodiversity

BA Wintle, H Kujala, A Whitehead… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Island biogeography theory posits that species richness increases with island size and
decreases with isolation. This logic underpins much conservation policy and regulation, with …

Seriously misleading results using inverse of Freeman‐Tukey double arcsine transformation in meta‐analysis of single proportions

G Schwarzer, H Chemaitelly… - Research synthesis …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Standard generic inverse variance methods for the combination of single proportions are
based on transformed proportions using the logit, arcsine, and Freeman‐Tukey double …

Arcsine‐based transformations for meta‐analysis of proportions: Pros, cons, and alternatives

L Lin, C Xu - Health Science Reports, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Meta‐analyses have been increasingly used to synthesize proportions (eg, disease
prevalence) from multiple studies in recent years. Arcsine‐based transformations, especially …