What works?: Selectivity models and meta-analysis

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 95-109

  Copas, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Meta analysis; Publication bias; Recidivism; Rehabilitation; Selectivity bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033475004     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00123     Document Type: Article

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