Understanding and testing for heterogeneity across 2 x 2 tables: Application to meta-analysis

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 2353-2369

  Berry, Scott M ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CALCULATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; META ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; ASPIRIN; BAYES THEOREM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TAMOXIFEN;

EID: 0032582771     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19981030)17:20<2353::AID-SIM923>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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