Arcsine test for publication bias in meta-analyses with binary outcomes

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 746-763

  Rücker, Gerta ^a   Schwarzer, Guido ^a   Carpenter, James ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arcsine transformation; Between study heterogeneity; Copas model; Meta analysis; Publication bias; Small study effects

Indexed keywords

GRANISETRON; PLACEBO;

ACCURACY; ARCSINE TEST; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DRUG EFFICACY; EFFECT SIZE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NULL HYPOTHESIS; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PROBABILITY; PUBLISHING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARIANCE;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PUBLICATION BIAS;

EID: 39549095784     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2971     Document Type: Article

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