Dealing with substantial heterogeneity in Cochrane reviews. Cross-sectional study

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Schroll, Jeppe B ^a   Moustgaard, Rasmus ^a   Gøtzsche, Peter C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EVALUATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 79951948455     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-11-22     Document Type: Article

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