Bayesian multivariate meta-analysis with multiple outcomes

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 2911-2934

  Wei, Yinghui ^a   Higgins, Julian P T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Missing outcome data; Multiple outcomes; Multivariate meta analysis; Structured covariance matrix; Unconstrained parameterization

Indexed keywords

VASOACTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CALCULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DECOMPOSITION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHASE SEPARATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

BAYESIAN; MISSING OUTCOME DATA; MULTIPLE OUTCOMES; MULTIVARIATE META-ANALYSIS; STRUCTURED COVARIANCE MATRIX; UNCONSTRAINED PARAMETERIZATION;

BAYES THEOREM; BIOSTATISTICS; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84880037799     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5745     Document Type: Article

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