Heterogeneous views on heterogeneity

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1740-1742

  Patsopoulos, Nikolaos A ^a   Evangelou, Evangelos ^a   Ioannidis, John P A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; LETTER; MATHEMATICS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; NOTE;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 75349105807     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyn235     Document Type: Letter

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