Confidence intervals for a random-effects meta-analysis based on Bartlett-type corrections

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 28, 2011, Pages 3304-3312

  Noma, Hisashi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bartlett correction; Coverage properties; Efficient score; Meta analysis; Random effects model

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BARTLETT CORRECTED LIKELIHOOD RATIO; BARTLETT TYPE ADJUSTED EFFICIENT SCORE STATISTICS; BARTLETT TYPE CORRECTION; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EFFICIENT SCORE STATISTICS; HEART INFARCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROBABILITY; RANDOM SAMPLE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MAGNESIUM; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 81955161941     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4350     Document Type: Article

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