Selection models with monotone weight functions in meta analysis

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 689-704

  Rufibach, Kaspar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Global constrained optimization; Meta analysis; Monotone non increasing; Selection bias

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

GLOBAL CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; META-ANALYSIS; MONOTONE NON-INCREASING; P-VALUES; PROBABILITY: DISTRIBUTIONS; PUBLICATION BIAS; SELECTION BIAS; SELECTION MODEL; WEIGHT FUNCTIONS; WEIGHTED PROBABILITY;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 79959797354     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: 15214036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.201000240     Document Type: Article

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