Statistics in pills: meta-analysis of rare events.
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BORIS DOI
Date of Publication
August 2019
Publication Type
Article
Division/Institute
Series
Evidence-Based Mental Health
ISSN or ISBN (if monograph)
1362-0347
Publisher
BMJ Publishing Group
Language
English
Publisher DOI
PubMed ID
31302610
Description
Meta-analysis of rare events requires special considerations regarding which statistical method to use. This is because standard meta-analytical models are not well suited for the task, especially when some of the identified studies have reported zero events in one or more treatment groups.
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| Efthimiou EvidBasedMentHealth 2019.pdf | text | Adobe PDF | 133.02 KB | publisher | published | ||
| Efthimiou EvidBasedMentHealth 2019_postprint.pdf | text | Adobe PDF | 80.38 KB | Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) | accepted |