A comparison of methods to detect publication bias in meta-analysis

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 641-654

  Macaskill, Petra ^a   Walter, Stephen D ^b   Irwig, Les ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL PRACTICE; META ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE; PUBLICATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; META-ANALYSIS; PUBLICATION BIAS; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICS;

EID: 0035961567     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.698     Document Type: Article

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