Development and validation of MIX: Comprehensive free software for meta-analysis of causal research data

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Bax, Leon ^a,b   Yu, Ly Mee ^c   Ikeda, Noriaki ^b   Tsuruta, Harukazu ^b   Moons, Karel G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; META ANALYSIS; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PUBLICATION; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METHODOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; TEACHING; VALIDATION STUDY;

CAUSALITY; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MEDICAL INFORMATICS APPLICATIONS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33750524394     PISSN: 14712288     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-6-50     Document Type: Article

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