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March 29, 2012International Journal of Epidemiology863 citationsOpen Access

Predicting the extent of heterogeneity in meta-analysis, using empirical data from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

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RTRebecca TurnerJDJonathan DaveyMCMike Clarke

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Meta-analysis characteristics were strongly associated with the degree of between-study heterogeneity, and predictive distributions for heterogeneity differed substantially across settings. The informative priors provided will be very beneficial in future meta-analyses including few studies.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/69d56dd375589c71d767d0fehttps://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dys041
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