Capture-recapture is a potentially useful method for assessing publication bias

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 349-357

  Bennett, Derrick A ^a   Latham, Nancy K ^a   Stretton, Caroline ^a   Anderson, Craig S ^a  

^a University of Auckland Clinical Trials Research Unit   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity; Modelling; Publication bias; Sensitivity analysis; Synthesis; Systematic searching

Indexed keywords

DATA BASE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 2342582737     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2003.09.015     Document Type: Article

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