Quasi-empirical bayes methodology for improving meta-analysis

Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 77-90

  Ehsanes Saleh, A K Md ^a   Hassanein, K M ^b   Hassanein, R S ^b   Kim, H M ^c  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayes; Confidence intervals; Empirical Bayes; Stein type estimators

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

BAYES THEOREM; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ODDS RATIO; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 30344462660     PISSN: 10543406     EISSN: 15205711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10543400500406553     Document Type: Article

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