Demystifying fixed and random effects meta-analysis

Evidence-Based Mental Health

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 53-57

  Nikolakopoulou, Adriani ^a   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

NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); SCHIZOPHRENIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 84899487919     PISSN: 13620347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/eb-2014-101795     Document Type: Article

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