Advances in meta-analysis: examples from internal medicine to neurology.

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Published in Neuroepidemiology on December 12, 2013

Authors

Massimiliano Copetti1, Andrea Fontana, Giusi Graziano, Federica Veneziani, Federica Siena, Marco Scardapane, Giuseppe Lucisano, Fabio Pellegrini

Author Affiliations

1: Unit of Biostatistics, Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy.

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