Details

Subject(s)

• Meta-analysis [Browse]
• Medicine—Research—Evaluation [Browse]
• Social sciences—Statistical methods [Browse]

Related name

• Kuhnert, Ronny [Browse]
• Rattanasiri, Sasivimol [Browse]

Series

• Interdisciplinary statistics. [More in this series]
• Chapman & Hall/CRC interdisciplinary statistics series

Summary note

Focuses on the analysis and modeling of a meta-analysis with individually pooled data. This book explores alternatives to the profile likelihood method, including approximated likelihood and multilevel models, and shows how the nonparametric profile maximum likelihood estimator can be computed via the EM algorithm with a gradient function update.

Notes

A Chapman & Hall book.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-182) and indexes.

Language note

English

Contents

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; CHAPTER 1: Introduction; CHAPTER 2: The basic model; CHAPTER 3: Modeling unobserved heterogeneity; CHAPTER 4: Modeling covariate information; CHAPTER 5: Alternative approaches; CHAPTER 6: Incorporating covariate information and unobserved heterogeneity; CHAPTER 7: Working with CAMAP; CHAPTER 8: Estimation of odds ratio using the profile likelihood; CHAPTER 9: Quantification of heterogeneity in a MAIPD; CHAPTER 10: Scrapie in Europe: a multicountry surveillance study as a MAIPD; APPENDIX A; Bibliography; Author index; Subject index

ISBN

• 0-429-14199-8
• 1-281-35747-2
• 9786611357474
• 1-4200-1133-2

OCLC

• 476156177
• 230751361

Doi

• 10.1201/9781420011333

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