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Meta-analyses: with confidence or prediction intervals?

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  1. Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), Lausanne University Hospital, Biopôle 2, route de la Corniche 10, 1010, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Arnaud Chiolero, Valérie Santschi & Bernard Burnand

  2. Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

    Arnaud Chiolero, Valérie Santschi, Robert W. Platt & Gilles Paradis

  3. Swiss Cochrane, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Bernard Burnand

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Chiolero, A., Santschi, V., Burnand, B. et al. Meta-analyses: with confidence or prediction intervals?. Eur J Epidemiol 27, 823–825 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-012-9738-y

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