Comparison of meta-analysis versus analysis of variance of individual patient data

Biometrics

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 317-322

  Olkin, Ingram ^a   Sampson, Allan ^b  

^a STANFORD LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Integrated efficacy analysis; Meta analysis of literature; Meta analysis of patients; Multiple treatment contrasts; Research synthesis; Unbalanced ANOVA

Indexed keywords

PATIENT TREATMENT;

INDIVIDUAL PATIENT DATA; INTEGRATED EFFICACY ANALYSE; META-ANALYSE OF LITERATURE; META-ANALYSE OF PATIENT; META-ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE TREATMENT CONTRAST; ONE-FACTOR; RESEARCH SYNTHESIS; UNBALANCED ANOVA;

HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; META ANALYSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARIANCE;

EID: 0031920047     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2534018     Document Type: Article

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