Methods for the joint meta-analysis of multiple tests

Research Synthesis Methods

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 294-312

  Trikalinos, Thomas A ^a   Hoaglin, David C ^a,b,c   Small, Kevin M ^d   Terrin, Norma ^e   Schmid, Christopher H ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Consulting Statistician ^*  (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^e TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Joint meta analysis; Multinomial likelihood; Multivariate normal; Regularized regression; Restricted maximum likelihood

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROCEDURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSIS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84940105940     PISSN: 17592879     EISSN: 17592887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jrsm.1115     Document Type: Article

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