Meta-analyses, multivariate analyses, and coping with the play of chance.

We have some reservations about the proposal by Joseph Lau and colleagues (Jan 10, p 123)1 that, because of the diversity of patients' responses to treatment, meta-analyses must evolve to include response-surface models and other multivariate techniques. On what basis should patients or their c...

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Main Authors: Clarke, M, Chalmers, I
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 1998