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A random effects variance shift model for detecting and accommodating outliers in meta-analysis

BACKGROUND: Meta-analysis typically involves combining the estimates from independent studies in order to estimate a parameter of interest across a population of studies. However, outliers often occur even under the random effects model. The presence of such outliers could substantially alter the co...

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Autores principales: Gumedze, Freedom N, Jackson, Dan
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3050872/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21324180
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-11-19