Modelling the effect of baseline risk in meta-analysis: A review from the perspective of errors-in-variables regression

Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 307-323

  Ghidey, Wendimagegn ^a   Stijnen, Theo ^b   Van Houwelingen, Hans C ^b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Baseline risk; conditional score; corrected score; measurement error models; meta analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASELINE RISK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; LITERATURE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SAMPLING ERROR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

BASELINE RISK; CONDITIONAL SCORE; CORRECTED SCORE; MEASUREMENT ERROR MODELS; META-ANALYSIS;

MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK;

EID: 84878520280     PISSN: 09622802     EISSN: 14770334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0962280211412244     Document Type: Article

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