Estimation of the number of studies with positive trends when studies with negative trends are present

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 643-655

  Crump, Kenny S ^a   Krewski, Daniel ^b  

^a KS Crump Division   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carcinogen bioassay; Distribution of p values; Empirical distribution function; Estimation of number of false hypotheses; Metaanalysis; POLY3 test

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032216919     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3315723     Document Type: Article

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