Simple non-iterative t-distribution based tests for meta-analysis

South African Statistical Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-17

  Hartung, J ^a   Makambi, K H ^a,b  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Balanced and unbalanced samples; Estimated degrees of freedom; Fixed and random effects models; Homoscedastic and heteroscedastic error variances; Replication; Type I error rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044532033     PISSN: 0038271X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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