Creating a suite of macros for meta-analysis in SAS®: A case study in collaboration

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 842-851

  Senn, Stephen ^a   Weir, James ^b   Hua, Tsushung A ^c   Berlin, Conny ^c   Branson, Michael ^c   Glimm, Ekkehard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fixed effects; Forest plot; Funnel plot; Galbraith plot; Random effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955129496     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2011.02.010     Document Type: Article

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