Quantifying heterogeneity in a meta-analysis

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1539-1558

  Higgins, Julian P T ^a   Thompson, Simon G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity; Meta analysis

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; META ANALYSIS; PUBLICATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZATION; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ALBUMINS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CLINICAL TRIALS; COGNITION DISORDERS; CYTIDINE DIPHOSPHATE CHOLINE; FIBROSIS; FRACTURE FIXATION; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS; RESUSCITATION; SARCOMA; SCLEROTHERAPY; STATISTICS;

EID: 0037098199     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1186     Document Type: Article

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