Differentiation and handling of homogeneity in network meta-analysis

Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 884-888

  Zhang, Chao ^a   Yan, Jin Zhu ^a   Sun, Feng ^b   Liu, Qing ^c   Guo, Yi ^c   Zeng, Xian Tao ^a  

^a HUBEI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Evidence transitivity; Heterogeneity; Homogeneity; Network meta analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; META ANALYSIS; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84905023261     PISSN: 16722531     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7507/1672-2531.20140146     Document Type: Article

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