Two-stage meta-analysis of survival data from individual participants using percentile ratios

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 30, 2012, Pages 4296-4308

  Barrett, Jessica K ^a   Farewell, Vern T ^a   Siannis, Fotios ^b   Tierney, Jayne ^c   Higgins, Julian P T ^a  

^a MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c MRC CLINICAL TRIALS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Individual patient data; Meta analysis; Survival data

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; GLIOMA; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERCENTILE RATIO; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; SURVIVAL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLIOMA; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LOGISTIC MODELS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; ODDS RATIO; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84870942329     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5516     Document Type: Article

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