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Meta-analytic methods for pooling rates when follow-up duration varies: a case study

BACKGROUND: Meta-analysis can be used to pool rate measures across studies, but challenges arise when follow-up duration varies. Our objective was to compare different statistical approaches for pooling count data of varying follow-up times in terms of estimates of effect, precision, and clinical in...

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Autores principales: Guevara, James P, Berlin, Jesse A, Wolf, Fredric M
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC481068/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15248899
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-4-17