Two-stage individual participant data meta-analysis and generalized forest plots

Stata Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 369-396

  Fisher, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Admetan; Forest plot; Forestplot; Individual participant data; ipdmetan; Ipdover; Meta analysis; Prefix command; st0384; Subgroup; Survival; Time to event; Two stage

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016769798     PISSN: 1536867X     EISSN: 15368734     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1536867x1501500203     Document Type: Article

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