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1993 • 2,776 citations

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Statistical Analysis With Missing Data

1988 • 2,007 citations

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1996 • 616 citations

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1995 • 546 citations

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1996 • 543 citations

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1995 • 472 citations

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1994 • 449 citations

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1993 • 431 citations

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1987 • 404 citations

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1994 • 354 citations

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The relation between treatment benefit and underlying risk in meta-analysis

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Meta-analysis by the confidence profile method

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1993 • 120 citations

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1993 • 118 citations

Guidelines for Application of Metaanalysis in Environmental Epidemiology

1995 • 109 citations

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Bayesian Biostatistics

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Bayesian meta-analysis, with application to studies of ETS and lung cancer

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1994 • 35 citations

Does Volume Really Affect Outcome? Lessons from the Evidence

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1996 • 16 citations

Health economic reviews. Are they compiled systematically?

1996 • 10 citations

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