Advances in meta-analysis: Examples from internal medicine to neurology

Neuroepidemiology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 59-67

  Copetti, Massimiliano ^a   Fontana, Andrea ^a   Graziano, Giusi ^b,d   Veneziani, Federica ^e   Siena, Federica ^f   Scardapane, Marco ^c   Lucisano, Giuseppe ^c   Pellegrini, Fabio ^a,c  

^a CASA SOLLIEVO DELLA SOFFERENZA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b DTP   (Italy)

^c Laboratorio Angela Valenti dei Fattori Genetici e Ambientali di Rischio Trombotico   (Italy)

^d National Cancer Research Center IRCCS Oncologico Giovanni Paolo II   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^f Department of Clinical and Research Neurology   (Italy)

Author keywords

Advanced techniques; Bayesian approaches; Data pooling; Exact methods; Generalized linear mixed models; Meta analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL STUDY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA ANALYSIS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NEUROLOGY; PUBLISHING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; META ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; NEUROLOGY;

EID: 84898493821     PISSN: 02515350     EISSN: 14230208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000355433     Document Type: Article

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