Dealing with missing standard deviation and mean values in meta-analysis of continuous outcomes: A systematic review

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Weir, Christopher J ^a   Butcher, Isabella ^a   Assi, Valentina ^a   Lewis, Stephanie C ^a   Murray, Gordon D ^a   Langhorne, Peter ^b   Brady, Marian C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Continuous outcomes; Meta analysis; Missing mean; Missing standard deviation; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BAYES THEOREM; BIOMETRY; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOMETRY; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE);

EID: 85043274450     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12874-018-0483-0     Document Type: Review

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