Meta-analysis of incidence rate data in the presence of zero events

BACKGROUND: When summary results from studies of counts of events in time contain zeros, the study-specific incidence rate ratio (IRR) and its standard error cannot be calculated because the log of zero is undefined. This poses problems for the widely used inverse-variance method that weights the st...

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Autores principales: Spittal, Matthew J, Pirkis, Jane, Gurrin, Lyle C
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4422043/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25925169
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-015-0031-0

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4422043/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25925169
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-015-0031-0

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