Discussion on 'Testing small study effects in multivariate meta-analysis' by Chuan Hong, Georgia Salanti, Sally Morton, Richard Riley, Haitao Chu, Stephen E Kimmel and Yong Chen

James R Carpenter^{1

2}, Gerta Rücker³, Guido Schwarzer³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
² MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, London, UK.
³ Medical Faculty and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.

Comment

James R Carpenter et al. Biometrics. 2020 Dec.

. 2020 Dec;76(4):1260-1261.

doi: 10.1111/biom.13344. Epub 2020 Aug 29.

James R Carpenter^{1

2}, Gerta Rücker³, Guido Schwarzer³

¹ Department of Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
² MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, London, UK.
³ Medical Faculty and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.

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Testing small study effects in multivariate meta-analysis.
Hong C, Salanti G, Morton SC, Riley RD, Chu H, Kimmel SE, Chen Y. Hong C, et al. Biometrics. 2020 Dec;76(4):1240-1250. doi: 10.1111/biom.13342. Epub 2020 Aug 29. Biometrics. 2020. PMID: 32720712 Free PMC article.

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