Combining the evidence using stable weights

Research Synthesis Methods

Volumn 1, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 284-296

  Kulinskaya, Elena ^a   Morgenthaler, Stephan ^b   Staudte, Robert G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

meta analysis; risk difference; simulations; variance stabilization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877107908     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17592887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jrsm.20     Document Type: Article

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