Wil Vander Lugt, the son of Amanda Adcock and Chad Vander Lugt, was the state's first baby born in 2015. He arrived at 12:48 a.m. at MaineGeneral in Waterville.
1 Meta-regression is a tool used in meta-analysis to examine the impact of moderator variables on study effect size using regression-based techniques. 2  Meta-regression is more effective at this task than are standard regression techniques.
Meta-Analyses: Meta-analysis is a systematic, objective way to combine data from many studies, usually from randomized controlled clinical trials, and arrive at a pooled estimate of treatment effectiveness and statistical significance. Meta-analysis can also combine data from case/control and cohort studies.