Publication bias in meta-analysis: A bayesian data-augmentation approach to account for issues exemplified in the passive smoking debate

Statistical Science

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 221-240

  Givens, Geof H ^a   Smith, David D ^a   Tweedie, Richard ^a  

^a Immunology and Pathology   (United States)

Author keywords

Data augmentation; Environmental tobacco smoke; ETS; Filedrawer problem; Gibbs sampling; Lung cancer; Markov chain monte carlo; MCMC; Meta analysis; Missing data; Passive smoking; Publication bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347107686     PISSN: 08834237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/ss/1030037958     Document Type: Article

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