Confidence intervals for random effects meta-analysis and robustness to publication bias

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 29, 2010, Pages 2969-2983

  Henmi, Masayuki ^a   Copas, John B ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DerSimonian Laird confidence interval; Meta analysis; Publication bias; Random effects models

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PROBABILITY; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; UNCERTAINTY;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PROBABILITY; PUBLICATION BIAS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78649676690     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4029     Document Type: Article

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