Exploring and accounting for publication bias in mental health: A brief overview of methods

Evidence-Based Mental Health

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 11-15

  Mavridis, Dimitris ^a,b   Salanti, Georgia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; PUBLISHING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PUBLICATION BIAS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84893198970     PISSN: 13620347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/eb-2013-101700     Document Type: Article

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