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What is a forest plot?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2011

Andrea Cipriani  and
Corrado Barbui
Andrea Cipriani*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine and Public Health, Section of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, University of Verona
Corrado Barbui
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine and Public Health, Section of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, University of Verona
*
Address for correspondence: Dr. A. Cipriani, Department of Medicine and Public Health, Section of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, University of Verona, Piazzale L.A. Scuro, 10-37134 Verona, Italy. Fax: +39 045-585871 E-mail: andrea.cipriani@univr.it
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Keywords

forest plotmeta-analysismethodsstatistics

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Type
ABC of Methodology
Information
Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , December 2006 , pp. 258 - 259
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

References

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