Graphics and statistics for cardiology: Data visualisation for meta-analysis

Heart

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 19-23

  Kiran, Amit ^a   Crespillo, Abel Pérez ^a   Rahimi, Kazem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA EXTRACTION; DATA SYNTHESIS; EFFECT SIZE; GRAPHICAL DISPLAY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; REVIEW; STATISTICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PROCEDURES; PUBLISHING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CARDIOLOGY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PUBLICATION BIAS;

EID: 85016159900     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2016-309685     Document Type: Review

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