Variance stabilizing the difference of two Binomial proportions

American Statistician

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 350-356

  Kulinskaya, Elena ^a   Morgenthaler, Stephan ^b   Staudte, Robert G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Effect size; Meta analysis; Wald confidence interval

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961001570     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/tast.2010.09080     Document Type: Article

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