Quantifying the impact of between-study heterogeneity in multivariate meta-analyses

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 29, 2012, Pages 3805-3820

  Jackson, Dan ^a   White, Ian R ^a   Riley, Richard D ^b  

^a MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Generalised variance; Meta regression; Multivariate methods; Random effects models

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MULTIPLE REGRESSION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

CHROMOSOME DELETION; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROBLASTOMA; PERIODONTAL DISEASES; RESEARCH DESIGN; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE;

EID: 84870066370     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5453     Document Type: Article

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