Metaan: Random-effects meta-analysis

Stata Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 395-407

  Kontopantelis, Evangelos ^a   Reeves, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Effect size; Forest plot; Maximum likelihood; Meta analysis; Metaan; Permutation model; Profile likelihood; Random effect; REML; Restricted maximum likelihood; St0201

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957672873     PISSN: 1536867X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1536867x1001000307     Document Type: Article

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