Goodness-of-fit test for meta-analysis

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Chen, Zhongxue ^a   Zhang, Guoyi ^b   Li, Jing ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; MODEL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); STATISTICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84948124217     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep16983     Document Type: Article

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