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Empirical evidence about inconsistency among studies in a pair‐wise meta‐analysis

This paper investigates how inconsistency (as measured by the I(2) statistic) among studies in a meta‐analysis may differ, according to the type of outcome data and effect measure. We used hierarchical models to analyse data from 3873 binary, 5132 continuous and 880 mixed outcome meta‐analyses withi...

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Autores principales: Rhodes, Kirsty M., Turner, Rebecca M., Higgins, Julian P. T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5217093/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26679486
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1193