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A bias assessment plot from Egger for the prevalence of D. immitis in canids of Iran up to 1 December 2019. In the absence of publication bias, it assumes that studies with high precision will be plotted near the average, and studies with low precision will be spread evenly on both sides of the average, creating a roughly funnel-shaped distribution. Deviation from this shape can indicate publication bias.
