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Likelihood-based random-effects meta-analysis with few studies: empirical and simulation studies
BACKGROUND: Standard random-effects meta-analysis methods perform poorly when applied to few studies only. Such settings however are commonly encountered in practice. It is unclear, whether or to what extent small-sample-size behaviour can be improved by more sophisticated modeling. METHODS: We cons...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6330405/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30634920 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-018-0618-3 |