Performance of statistical methods for meta-analysis when true study effects are non-normally distributed: A comparison between DerSimonian-Laird and restricted maximum likelihood

Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 657-659

  Kontopantelis, Evangelos ^a   Reeves, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DERSIMONIAN LAIRD; EFFECT SIZE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); RESTRICTED MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84870020421     PISSN: 09622802     EISSN: 14770334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0962280211413451     Document Type: Letter

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