Random effects meta-analysis: Coverage performance of 95% confidence and prediction intervals following REML estimation

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 301-317

  Partlett, Christopher ^a,b   Riley, Richard D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

coverage; meta analysis; random effects; REML; simulation

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HUMAN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; META ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; SCIENTIST; UNCERTAINTY; BIOSTATISTICS; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG EFFECTS; HYPERTENSION; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BIOSTATISTICS; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SAMPLE SIZE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84990932195     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.7140     Document Type: Article

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