Advanced methods in meta-analysis: Multivariate approach and meta-regression

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 589-624

  Van Houwelingen, Hans C ^a,b   Arends, Lidia R ^a   Stijnen, Theo ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Meta analysis; Meta regression; Multivariate random effects models

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOSTATISTICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; LINEAR SYSTEM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; META ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TUBERCULOSIS;

BAYES THEOREM; BCG VACCINE; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0037186429     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1040     Document Type: Article

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