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A note on the graphical presentation of prediction intervals in random-effects meta-analyses

BACKGROUND: Meta-analysis is used to combine the results of several related studies. Two different models are generally applied: the fixed-effect (FE) and random-effects (RE) models. Although the two approaches estimate different parameters (that is, the true effect versus the expected value of the...

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Autores principales: Guddat, Charlotte, Grouven, Ulrich, Bender, Ralf, Skipka, Guido
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3552946/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22839660
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2046-4053-1-34