Efforts to retrieve individual participant data sets for use in a meta-analysis result in moderate data sharing but many data sets remain missing

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 98, Issue , 2018, Pages 157-159

  Polanin, Joshua R ^a  

^a AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL FALLACY; HUMAN; LETTER; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; META ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; WRITING;

AUTHORSHIP; DATASETS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL;

EID: 85040641426     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2017.12.014     Document Type: Letter

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