Estimating the sample mean and standard deviation (SD) from the five-number summary and its application in meta-analysis




Scenario 1

  Size of the sample

  Minimum of the sample

  Median of the sample

  Maximum of the sample

   Reset         Detect the skewness         Calculate   

  Estimated mean of the sample from Luo et al. (2018)

  Estimated standard deviation of the sample from Wan et al. (2014)

Scenario 2

  Size of the sample

  First quartile of the sample

  Median of the sample

  Third quartile of the sample

   Reset         Detect the skewness         Calculate   

  Estimated mean of the sample from Luo et al. (2018)

  Estimated standard deviation of the sample from Wan et al. (2014)

Scenario 3

  Size of the sample

  Minimum of the sample

  First quartile of the sample

  Median of the sample

  Third quartile of the sample

  Maximum of the sample

   Reset         Detect the skewness         Calculate   

  Estimated mean of the sample from Luo et al. (2018)

  Estimated standard deviation of the sample from Shi et al. (2020)

References:

J. Shi, D. Luo, X. Wan, Y. Liu, J. Liu, Z. Bian and T. Tong (2023), "Detecting the skewness of data from the five-number summary and its application in meta-analysis", Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 32: 1338-1360.

J. Shi, D. Luo, H. Weng, X. Zeng, L. Lin, H. Chu and T. Tong (2020), "Optimally estimating the sample standard deviation from the five-number summary", Research Synthesis Methods, 11: 641-654.

D. Luo, X. Wan, J. Liu and T. Tong (2018), "Optimally estimating the sample mean from the sample size, median, mid-range and/or mid-quartile range", Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 27: 1785-1805.

X. Wan, W. Wang, J. Liu and T. Tong (2014), "Estimating the sample mean and standard deviation from the sample size, median, range and/or interquartile range", BMC Medical Research Methodology, 14: 135.



A flow chart for performing meta-analysis when some studies are reported with the whole or part of the five-number summary


Flow chart for meta-analysis



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