Deriving percentage study weights in multi-parameter meta-analysis models: with application to meta-regression, network meta-analysis and one-stage individual participant data models

Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2018, Pages 2885-2905

  Riley, Richard D ^a   Ensor, Joie ^a   Jackson, Dan ^b   Burke, Danielle L ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fisher s information; individual patient data meta analysis; meta regression; network meta analysis; Percentage study weights

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECOMPOSITION; DRUG COMBINATION; ECOLOGICAL FALLACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NETWORK META-ANALYSIS; PATIENT CODING; REMISSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; VARIANCE; ALGORITHM; MEDICAL RESEARCH; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PATIENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 85043679903     PISSN: 09622802     EISSN: 14770334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0962280216688033     Document Type: Article

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