Meta-analysis of variance: an illustration comparing the effects of two dietary interventions on variability in weight

New meta-analysis methods from evolutionary biology allow us to ask how treatments affect variability, as opposed to just the average. Using these methods we demonstrate that low carbohydrate ad libitum diets may have more variable outcomes than calorie restricted diets.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Evolution, Medicine and Public Health

• Publication date

  2016-08-03

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1093/emph/eow020PMID 27491895PMCID 4981479
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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