Neither fixed nor random: Weighted least squares meta-analysis

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 2116-2127

  Stanley, T D ^a   Doucouliagos, Hristos ^b  

^a HENDRIX COLLEGE   (United States)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fixed effect; Meta analysis; Meta regression; Random effects; Weighted least squares

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EFFECT SIZE; FIXED EFFECT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PUBLICATION; RANDOM EFFECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELECTION BIAS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PROBABILITY; PUBLISHING; STATISTICAL BIAS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MARKOV CHAINS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PUBLICATION BIAS;

EID: 84928736401     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.6481     Document Type: Article

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