On the moments of Cochran's Q statistic under the null hypothesis, with application to the meta-analysis of risk difference

Research Synthesis Methods

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 254-270

  Kulinskaya, Elena ^a   Dollinger, Michael B ^b   Bjørkestøl, Kirsten ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

Author keywords

gamma distribution; heterogeneity test; nuisance parameter; weighted analysis of variance; weighted sum of squares

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905499762     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17592887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jrsm.54     Document Type: Article

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