Flexible parametric models for random-effects distributions

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 418-434

  Lee, Katherine J ^a,b   Thompson, Simon G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC CLINICAL TRIALS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clustering; Flexible modelling; Meta analysis; Predictive distribution; Random effects; Skewing

Indexed keywords

FLUORIDE; PLACEBO; TOOTHPASTE;

ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL CARIES; EFFECT SIZE; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETER; PARAMETRIC TEST; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TELECONSULTATION; VARIANCE;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GREAT BRITAIN; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 38949124690     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2897     Document Type: Article

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