TY - JOUR AU - Seide, Svenja E. AU - Röver, Christian AU - Friede, Tim PY - 2019 DA - 2019/01/11 TI - Likelihood-based random-effects meta-analysis with few studies: empirical and simulation studies JO - BMC Medical Research Methodology SP - 16 VL - 19 IS - 1 AB - Standard random-effects meta-analysis methods perform poorly when applied to few studies only. Such settings however are commonly encountered in practice. It is unclear, whether or to what extent small-sample-size behaviour can be improved by more sophisticated modeling. SN - 1471-2288 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-018-0618-3 DO - 10.1186/s12874-018-0618-3 ID - Seide2019 ER -