Figure 1.
All meta-analyses, including single-study and subgroup meta-analyses.
Figure 2.
Model selection by number of available studies (and % of random-effects meta-analyses)*.
Figure 3.
Comparison of zero between-study variance estimates rates in the Cochrane library data and in simulations, using the DerSimonian-Laird method*.
Table 1.
Variation in terms of statistical conclusion for inverse variance meta-analyses.
Table 2.
Variation in terms of statistical conclusion for Mantel-Haenszel meta-analyses*.
Table 3.
Variation in terms of statistical conclusion for Peto fixed-effect meta-analyses.
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).
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).