Critical interpretation of Cochran's Q test depends on power and prior assumptions about heterogeneity

Research Synthesis Methods - Tập 1 Số 2 - Trang 149-161 - 2010
Tiago Pereira1,2,3, Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos1,4, Georgia Salanti1, John P. A. Ioannidis5,1,6,7,8
1Clinical and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, 45110, Greece.
2Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, 05403-000, Brazil
3Heart Institute (InCor), Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, São Paulo, 05403-000, Brazil
4Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston 2115, USA
5Biomedical Research Institute, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, Ioannina 45110, Greece
6Professor and Chairman
7Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
8Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute and Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Modeling, Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center and Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA

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