Estimating common mean and heterogeneity variance in two study case meta-analysis

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1318-1325

  Rukhin, Andrew L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

DerSimonian Laird procedure; Mill's ratio; Quadratic risk; Random effects model; Restricted likelihood

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860189994     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2012.03.031     Document Type: Article

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