Selection models and the file drawer problem

Statistical Science

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 109-117

  Iyengar, Satish ^a   Greenhouse, Joel B ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

File drawer problem; Maximum likelihood estimation; Meta analysis; Selection bias; Weighted distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84972490741     PISSN: 08834237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/ss/1177013012     Document Type: Article

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