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st: -metan- doesn't seem to do the Welch F-test


From   Roger Newson <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: -metan- doesn't seem to do the Welch F-test
Date   Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:24:50 +0100

I have a query re the -metan- command. When meta-analysing statistics from continuous data (eg arithmetic mean differences and geometric mean ratios), it seems to be using a chi-squared heterogeneity test, instead of the Welch heterogeneity F-test, which was recommended in the seminal paper by Cochrane (1954) for the case of continuous data. Is there a reason for this?

Best wishes (and thanks in advance)

Roger


Reference

Cochrane, W. G. 1954. The combination of estimates from different experiments. Biometrics 10(1): 101-129.

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Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
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