A hands-on practical tutorial on performing meta-analysis with Stata

Evidence-Based Mental Health

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 111-116

  Chaimani, Anna ^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

COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PUBLISHING; SAMPLE SIZE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEACHING;

COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PUBLICATION BIAS; SAMPLE SIZE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84908074796     PISSN: 13620347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/eb-2014-101967     Document Type: Article

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