Multivariate dose-response meta-analysis: The dosresmeta R package

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 72, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Crippa, Alessio ^a   Orsini, Nicola ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dose response; Dosresmeta; Meta analysis; Mixed effects model; R

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983059456     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v072.c01     Document Type: Article

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