Rejoinder to “quantifying publication bias in meta-analysis”

Biometrics

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 801-802

  Lin, Lifeng ^a   Chu, Haitao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

META-ANALYSIS; PUBLICATION BIAS;

ASYMMETRY; META-ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH WORK; SKEWNESS; UNCERTAINTY ROLE;

PUBLISHING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

MODELS, STATISTICAL; PUBLICATION BIAS;

EID: 85034212921     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/biom.12815     Document Type: Article

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