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Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation Volume 32, 2003 - Issue 4
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On Constructing Confidence Intervals for a Standardized Mean Difference in Meta-analysis

Kurex Sidik Ph.D. Biometrics Research, Wyeth Research, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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Jeffrey N. Jonkman Ph.D. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Mississippi State University, Mississippi, Mississippi State, USACorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 1191-1203 | Published online: 15 Feb 2007

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