Generalized inferences on the overall treatment effect in meta-analysis with normally distributed outcomes

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 237-247

  Tian, Lili ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence interval; Generalized confidence intervals; Generalized P values

Indexed keywords

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL TESTS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COVERAGE PROBABILITIES; GENERALIZED CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; GENERALIZED P-VALUE; GENERALIZED PIVOTAL QUANTITY; META-ANALYSIS; P-VALUES; SIMULATION STUDIES; T DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT EFFECTS;

FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING;

AMLODIPINE; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EXERCISE; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AMLODIPINE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EXERCISE; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 43249099338     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: 15214036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.200710409     Document Type: Article

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