Investigating heterogeneity in meta-analysis of studies with rare events. Estimating the amount of heterogeneity

DOI10.1007/s40300-021-00211-yzbMath1478.62321OpenAlexW3167135753MaRDI QIDQ2070654

Patarawan Sangnawakij, Walailuck Böhning, Heinz Holling, Dankmar Boehning

Publication date: 24 January 2022

Published in: Metron (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40300-021-00211-y

zbMATH Keywords

bootstraprare eventsmeta-analysisconditional Poisson distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Parametric hypothesis testing (62F03) Testing in survival analysis and censored data (62N03)

Uses Software

• R
• lme4

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