Flexibly modeling the baseline risk in meta-analysis

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 40-50

  Guolo, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Baseline risk; Likelihood; Measurement error; Meta analysis; Sandwich variance estimator; Skew normal distribution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASELINE RISK DISTRIBUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); HUMAN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MEASUREMENT ERROR; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SIMULATION; SKEW NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VARIANCE;

ANTICHOLESTEREMIC AGENTS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHOLESTEROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK;

EID: 84870928583     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5506     Document Type: Article

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