"Recent Advances in Meta-Analysis"
Symposium
On 28th and 29th of May 2026 a symposium on current statistical methods for meta-analyses was held in Göttingen, initiated by Tim Friede, Christian Röver (Department of Medical Statistics, University Medical Center Göttingen) and Markus Pauly (Department of Statistics, TU Dortmund University).
The programme includes presentations of many renowned researchers in the field of meta-analysis.
The symposium is part of the joint research project "Valid methods for meta-analyses with few studies and small sample sizes" of Tim Friede and Markus Pauly funded by the German Research Foundation.
Here you can also download the symposium programme as PDF.
If you would like to attend the symposium and require childcare during this time, please contact judith.heinz(at)med.uni-goettingen.de.
Programme and download of presentations
Thursday, May 28th 2026 (1.30pm - 6.30pm)
- 1:30pm - Welcome
Tim Friede (Department of Medical Statistics, UMG Göttingen)
Markus Pauly (Mathematical statistics and applications in industry, TU Dortmund University) - 1:40pm - Nonlinear models for meta-analysis [PPTX]
David Rindskopf (City University of New York, New York, NY, USA) - 2.25pm - Meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy studies: Statistical perspectives and practical implications [PDF]
Annika Hoyer (Biostatistics and Medical Biometry, Medical School OWL, Bielefeld University) - 3:10pm - Coffee break
- 3:40pm - Literature-based meta-analysis of adverse events accounting for heterogeneous follow-up duration in oncology clinical trials [PDF]
Satoshi Hattori (Department of Biomedical Statistics, Osaka University) - 4.25pm - Longitudinal information borrowing in RCTs using robust MAP priors [PDF]
David Jesse (Department of Medical Statistics, UMG, Göttingen | F. Hoffmann - La Roche Ltd., Basel, Switzerland) - 4.55pm - Discussion
- 5.10pm - Poster session with appetizers
- 6:30pm - End of symposium day one
- 7:00pm - Joint dinner at a restaurant in the city-center
Self-pay, only if registred by the end of April 2026
Friday, May 29th 2026 (9:00am - 1.30pm)
- 9:00am - Heteroscedastic heterogeneity in meta-analysis [PDF]
Wolfgang Viechtbauer (Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences and Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, NL) - 9:45am - Consistent Bayesian meta-analysis of subgroup-specific effects and interactions [PDF]
Renato Panaro (Department of Medical Statistics, UMG, Göttingen) - 10:15am - Coffee break
- 10:45am - Network meta-analysis and diffusion [PDF]
Gerta Rücker (Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, University of Freiburg) - 11:30am - Presentation cancelled: Variable selection in linear mixed model meta-regression with suspected interaction effects - Can tree based methods help?
Jan-Bernd Igelmann (Mathematical statistics and applications in industry, TU Dortmund University) - 12:00pm - Bayesian model selection in meta regression [PDF]
Bohua Chen (Department of Medical Statistics, UMG, Göttingen) - 12:30pm - Meta-analyses including previous meta-analyses [PDF]
Christian Röver (Department of Medical Statistics, UMG, Göttingen) - 1:00pm - Discussion
- 1:30pm - Farewell
Poster session
On Thursday evening there will be a poster session. The following topics will be presented:
- De Santis, Riccardo: "Small-sample hypothesis testing for binomial meta-analyses”
- Hanada, Keisuke: "Random-effects meta-analysis via generalized linear mixed models: A Bartlett-corrected approach for few studies”
- Igelmann, Jan-Bernd: “Back-Transformations in Random-Effects Meta-Analysis -- Impact and Interpretation”
- Menssen, Max: “How to spare animals in control groups of long-term carcinogenicity studies using MAP-priors”
- Niedermaier, Tobias: “Mortality by COPD Severity (GOLD 1–4): A Meta-Analytic Workflow for Deriving German 1-Year Risks for Decision Models”
- Pellegrini, Pasquale: “Preclinical confirmatory multi-laboratory studies improve validity and substantially enhance translational decision-making”
- Schneider, Lucia: “Evidence synthesis involving simulated data”
- Schürmeyer, Leonie: „IQWiG meta-analyses database: A presentation of the database and overview of two application examples”
- Tobeck, Phil: "Bayesian Hierachical Approaches for Evidence Sythesis in Pop PK/PD models"
Event location
“Tagungszentrum an der Sternwarte”
Geismar Landstr. 11b, 37078 Göttingen