The R package metalik for likelihood inference in meta-analysis

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Guolo, Annamaria ^a   Varin, Cristiano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Higher order asymptotics; Likelihood; Linear mixed effects model; Meta analysis R.

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893272615     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v050.i07     Document Type: Article

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