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Estimating required information size by quantifying diversity in random-effects model meta-analyses

BACKGROUND: There is increasing awareness that meta-analyses require a sufficiently large information size to detect or reject an anticipated intervention effect. The required information size in a meta-analysis may be calculated from an anticipated a priori intervention effect or from an interventi...

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Autores principales: Wetterslev, Jørn, Thorlund, Kristian, Brok, Jesper, Gluud, Christian
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2809074/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20042080
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-9-86