An empirical comparison of univariate and multivariate meta-analyses for categorical outcomes

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1441-1459

  Trikalinos, Thomas A ^a   Hoaglin, David C ^a,b,c   Schmid, Christopher H ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Department of Quantitative Health Sciences University of Massachusetts Medical School ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Joint meta analysis; Multinomial likelihood; Multivariate normal; Regularized regression; Restricted maximum likelihood

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PREDICTION; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LITERATURE; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DATASETS AS TOPIC; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84898056914     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.6044     Document Type: Article

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