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Meta-Analysis: Different Methods - Different Conclusions?
Annette Böckenhoff, Joachim Hartung
39 - 43
10.3233/978-1-60750-921-9-39
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume 77: Medical Infobahn for Europe
Abstract

Different estimation methods for covariance parameters in meta-analyses can result in conflicting p-values concerning the test of treatment effect. We propose a valid method to overcome this problem at least partially by introducing a new estimator for the standard deviation of the common treatment difference.

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