‘Cross hairs’ plots for diagnostic meta-analysis

Research Synthesis Methods

Volumn 1, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 308-315

  Phillips, Bob ^a   Stewart, Lesley A ^b   Sutton, Alex J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

clinical interpretation; diagnostic meta analysis; graphical display

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891826982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17592887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jrsm.26     Document Type: Article

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