Ecological-type inference in matched-pair studies with fixed marginal totals

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 541-548

  Barker, Laurie K ^a   Griffin, Susan O ^a   Jeon, Seonghye ^b   Gray, Shellie Kolavic ^c   Vidakovic, Brani ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Dental sealants meta analysis; Ecological inference; Hierarchical model; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Matched pair study

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL AND DENTAL MATERIALS; INSULIN LISPRO; PIG INSULIN; SEALANT;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; INFERENTIAL STATISTICS; MATERIALS TESTING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POWER ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STUDY DESIGN; VARIANCE;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DENTAL CARIES; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INSULIN; MARKOV CHAINS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PIT AND FISSURE SEALANTS; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 79851474815     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3919     Document Type: Article

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