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Bias caused by sampling error in meta-analysis with small sample sizes

BACKGROUND: Meta-analyses frequently include studies with small sample sizes. Researchers usually fail to account for sampling error in the reported within-study variances; they model the observed study-specific effect sizes with the within-study variances and treat these sample variances as if they...

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Autor principal: Lin, Lifeng
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6136825/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30212588
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204056