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Random-effects model for meta-analysis of clinical trials: an update.

R. Dersimonian, R. Kacker

2007.2.1Contemporary Clinical Trials

DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2006.04.004

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It is shown that the leading methods for estimating the inter-study variance are special cases of a general method-of-moments estimate of the inter"-study variance" and suggested two new two-step methods.

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DERSIMONIAN, R.; KACKER, R. Random-effects model for meta-analysis of clinical trials: An update. Contemporary Clinical Trials, 2007, 28 2: 105–14.