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.
Change analysis is nearly always used in conjunction with another RCA method to provide a specific cause, not necessarily a root cause. Change Analysis is a very good tool to help determine specific causes or causal elements, but it does not provide a clear understanding of the causal relationships of a given event. Unfortunately, many people who use this method simply ask why the change occurred and fail to complete a comprehensive analysis.