Trial sequential boundaries for cumulative meta-analyses

Stata Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 77-91

  Miladinovic, Branko ^a   Hozo, Iztok ^b   Djulbegovic, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY NORTHWEST   (United States)

Author keywords

Cumulative metaanalysis; Cumulative z score; Heterogeneity; Information size; Lan DeMets bounds; Metacumbounds; Monitoring boundary; St0284; Trial sequential analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875648927     PISSN: 1536867X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1536867x1301300106     Document Type: Article

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