Weaknesses of Bayesian model averaging for meta-analysis in the study of vitamin E and mortality

Clinical Trials

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 42-46

  Greenland, Sander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL;

BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COVARIANCE; DOSE RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MORTALITY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VITAMIN INTAKE; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

ANTIOXIDANTS; BAYES THEOREM; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MORTALITY; VITAMIN E;

EID: 62149087766     PISSN: 17407745     EISSN: 17407753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1740774509103251     Document Type: Note

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