TY - JOUR T1 - Resource reviews JF - Evidence Based Medicine JO - Evid Based Med SP - 60 LP - 61 DO - 10.1136/ebm.14.2.60-a VL - 14 IS - 2 A2 - , Y1 - 2009/04/01 UR - http://ebm.bmj.com/content/14/2/60.2.abstract N2 - Richard Stevens, PhDUniversity of Oxford, Oxford, UKMeta analysis: a guide to calibrating and combining statistical evidence can be obtained from eu.wiley.com for £37.50.This book is described in the preface as “primarily a source of basic methods” for meta-analysis, but chapter 1 states the true intention of this book: to lay “the foundation for a meta-analytic theory” of the authors’ own invention. The reader looking for standard meta-analytic techniques will be disappointed. This is not a textbook from which to learn classic methods such as inverse variance, Peto’s “O-E,” or even fixed-effect and random-effects meta-analyses in their usual forms. Fundamental tools, such as the “forest plot” presentation, are nowhere to be found. This is neither a tutorial for beginners nor a reference book for mainstream meta-analysis but a … ER -