The population risk as an explanatory variable in research synthesis of clinical trials

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 1713-1728

  McIntosh, Martin W ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COVARIANCE; ERROR; HUMAN; MORTALITY; POPULATION RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADRENERGIC BETA-AGONISTS; ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC FACTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MAGNESIUM; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; RISK; TOCOLYTIC AGENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029766918     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19960830)15:16<1713::AID-SIM331>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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