Empirical assessment of effect of publication bias on meta-analyses

British Medical Journal

Volumn 320, Issue 7249, 2000, Pages 1574-1577

  Sutton, A J ^a   Duval, S J ^b   Tweedie, R L ^a   Abrams, K R ^a   Jones, D R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; EMPIRICISM; META ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS;

EID: 0034631415     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1574     Document Type: Article

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