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In an empirical evaluation of the funnel plot, researchers could not visually identify publication bias

Terrin, Norma, Schmid, Christopher H., Lau, Joseph·2005·Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
DOI 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2005.01.006
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Authors
Terrin, N., Schmid, C. H., & Lau, J.
Venue
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2005-09
Volume
58
Issue
9
Pages
894-901
ISSN
0895-4356 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.jclinepi.2005.01.006
OpenAlex
W2011992630
Cited by
492
References
16
FWCI
16.59
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)

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