Confidence intervals for the amount of heterogeneity in meta-analysis

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 37-52

  Viechtbauer, Wolfgang ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Heterogeneity; Meta analysis; Random effects model

Indexed keywords

DIURETIC AGENT;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; META ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

BIOMETRY; CLINICAL TRIALS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DIURETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY;

EID: 33846253999     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2514     Document Type: Article

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