Many continuous variables such as the duration of the common cold should be analyzed using the relative scale

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Hemilä , H 2016 , ' Many continuous variables such as the duration of the common cold should be analyzed using the relative scale ' , Journal of Clinical Epidemiology , vol. 78 , pp. 128-129 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2016.03.020

Title: Many continuous variables such as the duration of the common cold should be analyzed using the relative scale
Author: Hemilä, Harri
Contributor organization: Harri Hemilä / Principal Investigator
Department of Public Health
Clinicum
Date: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 2
Belongs to series: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
ISSN: 0895-4356
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2016.03.020
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/173096
Abstract: Alba et al. compared the heterogeneity of meta-analyses on the basis of the type of outcome, and concluded that meta-analyses that evaluate continuous outcomes showed substantially higher I-square values than meta-analyses of binary outcomes. However, in a proper comparison, like should be compared with like.
Subject: 3142 Public health care science, environmental and occupational health
Peer reviewed: No
Usage restriction: openAccess
Self-archived version: acceptedVersion


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