Approximate confidence intervals for moment-based estimators of the between-study variance in random effects meta-analysis

Research Synthesis Methods

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 372-382

  Jackson, Dan ^a   Bowden, Jack ^a   Baker, Rose ^b  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Interval estimation; Large sample inference; Meta regression; Quadratic form

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84956942689     PISSN: 17592879     EISSN: 17592887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jrsm.1162     Document Type: Article

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