Meta-analysis: an introduction into a research process

Special Care in Dentistry

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 125-130

  Livingston, Mark ^a   Messura, Judith ^b   Dellinger, Tracy ^a   Holder, Bay ^c   Hyde, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST BAPTIST HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis is; methodology; Metta analysis; Statistics

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; NOMENCLATURE; REVIEW; TECHNIQUE;

HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; METHODS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 54049133389     PISSN: 02751879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-4505.2008.00033.x     Document Type: Review

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