Improved tests for a random effects meta-regression with a single covariate

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 2693-2710

  Knapp, Guido ^a   Hartung, Joachim ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity; Meta analysis; Meta regression; Trial specific covariate

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; META ANALYSIS; PROCESS MODEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TUBERCULOSIS; VARIANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BCG VACCINE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0042926567     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1482     Document Type: Article

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