Systematic Reviews in Health Care: Meta‐analysis in Context

By M. Pittler. 2010

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Subfields: Complementary and alternative medicine, Complementary and Manual Therapy, Statistics and Probability

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Epidemiologic studies of modifiable factors associated with cognition and dementia: systematic review and meta-analysis (2014, methodology): “Finally, in order to examine publication bias, we used Begg’s funnel plots; each RR point estimate was plotted against their corresponding standard errors (SE) for each study on a logarithmic scale [262,263], for all exposures combined.”
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