Integrated Likelihood Inference in Small Sample Meta-analysis for Continuous Outcomes

DOI10.1111/sjos.12172zbMath1371.62058OpenAlexW1769847068MaRDI QIDQ2791835

Annamaria Guolo, Ruggero Bellio

Publication date: 16 March 2016

Published in: Scandinavian Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3162355

zbMATH Keywords

nuisance parametersmeta-analysisfrequentist inferenceintegrated likelihoodsmall sample inferencenutritional science

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Point estimation (62F10) Analysis of variance and covariance (ANOVA) (62J10)

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Integrated likelihoods in parametric survival models for highly clustered censored data, When should meta‐analysis avoid making hidden normality assumptions?, Integrated likelihoods in models with stratum nuisance parameters

Uses Software

• R
• QUADPACK
• metaLik

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