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. 2008 Nov 27;8:79. doi: 10.1186/1471-2288-8-79

Table 2.

Effect of increasing within trial precision (factor M) on heterogeneity measures (data in [14]).

Factor Measure
M τ^2 Q (P-value) I2 H

1 0.018 85 (0.0953) 18.6% [0%; 40.1%] 1.11 [1; 1.29]
4 0.008 98 (0.0135) 29.2% [4.5%; 47.6%] 1.19 [1.02; 1.38]
16 0.027 454 (<0.0001) 84.8% [81.4%; 87.5%] 2.56 [2.32; 2.83]
64 0.028 1708 (<0.0001) 96.0% [95.4%; 96.5%] 4.98 [4.65; 5.32]