Random effects meta-analysis of event outcome in the framework of the generalized linear mixed model with applications in sparse data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 29, 2010, Pages 3046-3067

  Stijnen, Theo ^a   Hamza, Taye H ^b   Özdemir, Pinar ^c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^c HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Approximate likelihood; Binomial distribution; Bivariate meta analysis; Exact likelihood; Meta analysis; Multivariate meta analysis; Network meta analysis; Non central hypergeometric distribution; Random effects; Rare events

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FOLLOW UP; INCIDENCE; LINEAR SYSTEM; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OUTCOME VARIABLE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; RANDOMIZATION; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FIBROSIS; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; ODDS RATIO; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78649672029     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4040     Document Type: Article

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