Meta-analysis with missing study-level sample variance data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 17, 2016, Pages 3021-3032

  Chowdhry, Amit K ^a   Dworkin, Robert H ^a,b   McDermott, Michael P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

complete case analysis; meta analysis; meta regression; missing sample variance; missing standard deviation; missing at random assumption

Indexed keywords

CASE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROL GROUP; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 84977517243     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.6908     Document Type: Article

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