Plea for routinely presenting prediction intervals in meta-analysis

BMJ Open

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  IntHout, Joanna ^a   Ioannidis, John P A ^b,c   Rovers, Maroeska M ^a   Goeman, Jelle J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c STANFORD LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COCHRANE LIBRARY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; META ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UNCERTAINTY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PUBLISHING; RESEARCH;

HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PROBABILITY; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH REPORT;

EID: 85000866393     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/BMJOPEN-2015-010247     Document Type: Article

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