Evaluating heterogeneity in cumulative meta-analyses

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Villanueva, Elmer V ^a,b   Zavarsek, Silva ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b National Breast Cancer Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONIDINE; NICOTINE; NICOTINE GUM;

ACUPUNCTURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; META ANALYSIS; NICOTINE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; PUBLICATION; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; COUNSELING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); ODDS RATIO; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOBACCO USE DISORDER;

ACUPUNCTURE; CLONIDINE; COUNSELING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EFFECT MODIFIER, EPIDEMIOLOGIC; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; NICOTINE; ODDS RATIO; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO USE DISORDER;

EID: 4844229752     PISSN: 14712288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-4-18     Document Type: Article

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