Mixed-effects poisson regression models for meta-analysis of follow-up studies with constant or varying durations

International Journal of Biostatistics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Bagos, Pantelis G ^a   Nikolopoulos, Georgios K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL GREECE   (Greece)

^b Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention   (Greece)

Author keywords

Meta analysis; Multilevel models; Multivariate methods; Poisson regression; Random effects

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FOLLOW UP; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 68249087445     PISSN: 15574679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1557-4679.1168     Document Type: Article

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