Improving the error rates of the Begg and Mazumdar test for publication bias in fixed effects meta-analysis

BACKGROUND: The rank correlation test introduced by Begg and Mazumdar is extensively used in meta-analysis to test for publication bias in clinical and epidemiological studies. It is based on correlating the standardized treatment effect with the variance of the treatment effect using Kendall’s tau...

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Autores principales: Gjerdevik, Miriam, Heuch, Ivar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4193136/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25245217
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-14-109

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4193136/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25245217
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-14-109

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