Mixed treatment comparisons using aggregate and individual participant level data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 28, 2012, Pages 3516-3536

  Saramago, Pedro ^a   Sutton, Alex J ^b   Cooper, Nicola J ^b   Manca, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggregate data; Evidence synthesis; Heterogeneity; Individual patient data; Meta analysis; Mixed treatment comparisons

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ARTICLE; CHILD CARE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; DATA SYNTHESIS; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOME SAFETY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; PRODUCT SAFETY; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNCERTAINTY;

ACCIDENTS, HOME; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROTECTIVE DEVICES; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84870254031     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5442     Document Type: Article

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