The Importance of "Shrinkage" in Subgroup Analyses

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Lipsky, Ari M ^a,b,c,d   Gausche Hill, Marianne ^a,b,c   Vienna, Muna ^a   Lewis, Roger J ^a,b,c  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LOS ANGELES BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d GERTNER INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BAYES THEOREM; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 77952310707     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2010.01.002     Document Type: Article

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