Meta-analysis of binary data: Which within study variance estimate to use?

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2001, Pages 1947-1956

  Chang, Bei Hung ^a   Waternaux, Christine ^b   Lipsitz, Stuart ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; PLACEBO;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; META ANALYSIS; MODEL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARIANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; META-ANALYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035879415     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.823     Document Type: Article

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