Assessment of funnel plot asymmetry and publication bias in reproductive health meta-analyses: An analytic survey

Reproductive Health

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Souza, João P ^a   Pileggi, Cynthia ^a   Cecatti, José G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; FUNNEL PLOT; META ANALYSIS; PUBLISHING; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 34247478007     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17424755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-4755-4-3     Document Type: Article

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