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Meta-analysis of controlled clinical trials /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Whitehead, Anne
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester : John Wiley & Sons, [2002]
Series:Statistics in practice (Chichester, England)
Subjects:
Controlled Clinical Trials as Topic > statistics & numerical data.
Meta-Analysis.
Table of Contents:
  • Protocol development
  • Estimating the treatment difference in an individual trial
  • Combining estimates of a treatment difference across trials
  • Meta-analysis using individual patient data
  • Dealing with heterogeneity
  • Presentation and interpretation of results
  • Selection bias
  • Dealing with non-standard data sets
  • Inclusion of trials with different study designs
  • A Bayesian approach to meta-analysis
  • Sequential methods for meta-analysis
  • Appendix :
  • Methods of estimation and hypothesis testing