Approaches to heterogeneity in meta-analysis

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 23, 2001, Pages 3625-3633

  Petitti, Diana B ^a  

^a KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZATION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE; STATISTICS;

EID: 0035892613     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1091     Document Type: Article

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