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Figure 1.

All meta-analyses, including single-study and subgroup meta-analyses.

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Figure 2.

Model selection by number of available studies (and % of random-effects meta-analyses)*.

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Figure 3.

Comparison of zero between-study variance estimates rates in the Cochrane library data and in simulations, using the DerSimonian-Laird method*.

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Table 1.

Variation in terms of statistical conclusion for inverse variance meta-analyses.

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Table 2.

Variation in terms of statistical conclusion for Mantel-Haenszel meta-analyses*.

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Table 3.

Variation in terms of statistical conclusion for Peto fixed-effect meta-analyses.

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Figure 4.

Distribution of between-study variance estimates by method type (including main and subgroup meta-analyses and truncated to 0.5 for better visualisation).

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Figure 5.

Cumulative distribution of between-study variance estimates by method type (including main and subgroup meta-analyses and truncated to 5 for better visualisation).

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