Multivariate meta-analysis

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 2309-2333

  Nam, In Sun ^a   Mengersen, Kerrie ^b   Garthwaite, Paul ^c  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian; ETS; Meta analysis; Multivariate models; Passive smoking

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PARENT; RANDOMIZATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SMOKING; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ASTHMA; AUSTRALIA; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; META-ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 0042671465     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1410     Document Type: Article

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