"Recent Advances in Meta-Analysis"
Symposium
On 28th and 29th of May 2026 a symposium on current statistical methods for meta-analyses will be 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.
Programme
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
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
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
Satoshi Hattori (Department of Biomedical Statistics, Osaka University) - 4.25pm - Longitudinal information borrowing in RCTs using robust MAP priors
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
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
Renato Panaro (Department of Medical Statistics, UMG, Göttingen) - 10:15am - Coffee break
- 10:45am - Network meta-analysis and diffusion
Gerta Rücker (Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, University of Freiburg) - 11:30am - 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
Bohua Chen (Department of Medical Statistics, UMG, Göttingen) - 12:30pm - Meta-analyses including previous meta-analyses
Christian Röver (Department of Medical Statistics, UMG, Göttingen) - 1:00pm - Discussion
- 1:30pm - Farewell
Registration
Registration for the symposium is free but required by the end of April 2026 at the latest.
For registration please contact Judith Heinz at judith.heinz(at)med.uni-goettingen.de.
A joint dinner in a restaurant in the city-center is planned at the end of the first day. If you would like to attend (on a self-pay basis), please let us know when you register for the symposium.
Call for posters
On Thursday evening there will be the opportunity to present contributions as posters.
If you are interested, please send title and brief abstract for a poster presentation to christian.roever(at)med.uni-goettingen.de by the end of April 2026.
Event location
"Tagungszentrum an der Sternwarte", Geismar Landstr. 11b, 37078 Göttingen