Outlier and influence diagnostics for meta-analysis

Research Synthesis Methods

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 112-125

  Viechtbauer, Wolfgang ^a   Cheung, Mike W L ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

influence diagnostics; meta analysis; mixed effects model; outliers

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952453322     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17592887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jrsm.11     Document Type: Article

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