Grouped random effects models for Bayesian meta-analysis

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 1817-1829

  Larose, Daniel T ^a   Dey, Dipak K ^b  

^a CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROGABIDE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; EPILEPSY; META ANALYSIS; MODEL; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ANTICONVULSANTS; BAYES THEOREM; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; META-ANALYSIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 0030864768     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19970830)16:16<1817::AID-SIM621>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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