Meta-analysis: A unifying meta-likelihood approach framing unobserved heterogeneity, study covariates, publication bias, and study quality

Methods of Information in Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 127-135

  Böhning, Dankmar ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

C.A.MAN; Evidence based medicine; Meta analysis; Meta likelihood; Meta regression; Nonparametric maximum meta likelihood; Publication bias; Unobserved heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

HORMONE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; COVARIANCE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 16244415517     PISSN: 00261270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1633931     Document Type: Article

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