Predictive modeling and heterogeneity of baseline risk in meta-analysis of individual patient data

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 245-252

  Trikalinos, Thomas A ^a   Ioannidis, John P A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Baseline risk; Heterogeneity; Meta analysis; Meta analysis of individual patient data; Predictive models; Randomized trials

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

AGE; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; META ANALYSIS; MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ACYCLOVIR; BIOMETRY; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 0035133211     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(00)00311-5     Document Type: Article

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