Meta-analysis using Dirichlet process

Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 352-365

  Muthukumarana, Saman ^a   Tiwari, Ram C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; heterogeneity; log pseudo marginal likelihood; Markov chain Monte Carlo; odds ratio

Indexed keywords

DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; PROCESS MODEL; STATISTICAL MODEL; STUDENT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOSTATISTICS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; MARKOV CHAIN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MONTE CARLO METHOD; PSYCHOLOGY;

TACRINE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOSTATISTICS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARKOV CHAINS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; TACRINE;

EID: 84958696227     PISSN: 09622802     EISSN: 14770334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0962280212453891     Document Type: Article

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