Comparison of three tests of homogeneity of odds ratios in multicenter trials with unequal sample sizes within and among centers

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Bagheri, Zahra ^a   Ayatollahi, Seyyed Mohammad Taghi ^a   Jafari, Peyman ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPARATIVE STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); RISK; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; ODDS RATIO; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79955112316     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-11-58     Document Type: Article

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