Meta-analysis of prevalence

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 67, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 974-978

  Barendregt, Jan J ^a   Doi, Suhail A ^a   Lee, Yong Yi ^a   Norman, Rosana E ^a   Vos, Theo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; META-ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; SOFTWARE;

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METHODOLOGY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PREVALENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICS;

BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PREVALENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84885339508     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2013-203104     Document Type: Article

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