An assessment of the use of the continuity correction for sparse data in meta-analysis

Communications in Statistics Part B: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1031-1056

  Sankey, Steadman S ^a   Weissfeld, Lisa A ^a   Fine, Michael J ^b   Kapoor, Wishwa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dersimonian and Laird statistic; Mantel Haenszel statistic; Test for homogeneity; Zero cells

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000283026     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610919608813357     Document Type: Article

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