Imputing missing standard deviations in meta-analyses can provide accurate results.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Many reports of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) fail to provide standard deviations (SDs) of their continuous outcome measures. Some meta-analysts substitute them by those reported in other studies, either from another meta-analysis or from other studies in the same m...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2006
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