Automating network meta-analysis

Research Synthesis Methods

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 285-299

  van Valkenhoef, Gert ^a   Lu, Guobing ^a   de Brock, Bert ^a   Hillege, Hans ^a   Ades, A E ^a   Welton, Nicky J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84887334981     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17592887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jrsm.1054     Document Type: Article

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