Confidence intervals for the between-study variance in random-effects meta-analysis using generalised heterogeneity statistics: Should we use unequal tails?

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Jackson, Dan ^a   Bowden, Jack ^a  

^a MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Confidence interval width; Quadratic forms; Statistical conventions

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84992170662     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12874-016-0219-y     Document Type: Article

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