Basics of meta‐analysis: I2 is not an absolute measure of heterogeneity

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  2017

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  Research Synthesis Methods

• Publication date

  2017-03-01

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  Mathematics, Medicine, Economics

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  DOI 10.1002/jrsm.1230PMID 28058794
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