Extracting summary statistics to perform meta-analyses of the published literature for survival endpoints

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 2815-2834

  Parmar, Mahesh K B ^a   Torri, Valter ^b   Stewart, Lesley ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; HAZARD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; VARIANCE;

HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032583387     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19981230)17:24<2815::AID-SIM110>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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