An Appraisal of the Carlisle-Stouffer-Fisher Method for Assessing Study Data Integrity and Fraud

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1381-1385

  Mascha, Edward J ^a   Vetter, Thomas R ^b   Pittet, Jean Francois ^c  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CARLISLE STOUFFER FISHER METHOD; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CRITERION VARIABLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA SYNTHESIS; FRAUD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RELIABILITY; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; SOCIAL STIGMA; HUMAN; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FRAUD; HUMANS; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT;

EID: 85030749712     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000002415     Document Type: Article

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