Boosting qualifies capture-recapture methods for estimating the comprehensiveness of literature searches for systematic reviews

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1364-1372

  Rücker, Gerta ^a   Reiser, Veronika ^a   Motschall, Edith ^a   Binder, Harald ^a,b   Meerpohl, Jörg J ^a   Antes, Gerd ^a   Schumacher, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capture recapture; Componentwise boosting; Literature search; Meta analysis; Model selection; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; CAPTURE RECAPTURE ANALYSIS; COMPREHENSION; DATA BASE; GASTROENTEROLOGY; HEMATOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC);

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOMETRY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GASTROENTEROLOGY; HEMATOLOGY; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 80055017365     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2011.03.008     Document Type: Article

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