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In a meta-analysis, the I-squared statistic does not tell us how much the effect size varies
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“indicating that most of the observed variability in effects-which were highly dispersed-was real and there was likely no true common effect size across studies (Borenstein, 2022).”
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- Borenstein, M.
- Venue
- Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2022-12
- Volume
- 152
- Pages
- 281-284
- ISSN
- 0895-4356
- Cited by
- 141
- References
- 2
- Language
- en
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