Dealing with missing standard deviation and mean values in meta-analysis of continuous outcomes: a systematic review
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Dealing with missing standard deviation and mean values in meta-analysis of continuous outcomes: a systematic review
BACKGROUND Rigorous, informative meta-analyses rely on availability of appropriate summary statistics or individual participant data. For continuous outcomes, especially those with naturally skewed distributions, summary information on the mean or variability often goes unreported. While full reporting of original trial data is the ideal, we sought to identify methods for handling unreported me...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Medical Research Methodology
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1471-2288
DOI: 10.1186/s12874-018-0483-0