Borrowing strength from external trials in a meta-analysis

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 24, 1996, Pages 2733-2749

  Higgins, Julian P T ^a,b   Whitehead, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; META ANALYSIS; SCLEROTHERAPY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; BAYES THEOREM; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; META-ANALYSIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SCLEROTHERAPY;

EID: 0030463880     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19961230)15:24<2733::AID-SIM562>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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