Alternative measures of between-study heterogeneity in meta-analysis: reducing the impact of outlying studies

DOI10.1111/BIOM.12543MaRDI QIDQ5347413zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Li-Feng Lin, Haitao Chu, James S. Hodges

Publication date 23 May 2017

Published in Biometrics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://europepmc.org/articles/pmc5106349

zbMATH Keywords

\(I^{2}\) statisticabsolute deviationheterogeneitymeta-analysisoutliers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear regression; mixed models (62J05) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) General biostatistics (92B15)

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