A novel application of the file drawer formula: Rejected study bias in meta-analysis

Psychological Reports

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 703-706

  Reed, Justy ^a  

^a CHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; META ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC;

EID: 77449096664     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PR0.105.3.703-706     Document Type: Article

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