Integrated Likelihood Inference in Small Sample Meta-analysis for Continuous Outcomes

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 191-201

  Bellio, Ruggero ^a   Guolo, Annamaria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Frequentist inference; Integrated likelihood; Meta analysis; Nuisance parameters; Small sample inference

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958237313     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: 14679469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sjos.12172     Document Type: Article

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