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REGRESSION ANALYSIS

The Significance Level of Meta-Regression's Standard Hypothesis Test

Dan Jackson MRC Biostatistics Unit, Institute of Public Health, Cambridge, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 1576-1590 | Received 10 Nov 2006, Accepted 14 Sep 2007, Published online: 26 Mar 2008

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