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. 2017 Apr 7;12(4):e0175302. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0175302

Table 2. Expected values of the posterior model probabilities of the snapshot hybrid, snapshot naïve, and traditional fixed-effect meta-analysis (FE).

Snapshot Hybrid Snapshot Naïve FE
N ρS = 0 ρS = 0.1 ρS = 0.3 ρS = 0.5 ρS = 0 ρS = 0.1 ρS = 0.3 ρS = 0.5
ρ = 0 31 0.466 0.36 0.151 0.023 0.177 0.336 0.411 0.076 0.215
55 0.535 0.375 0.089 0.002 0.212 0.479 0.304 0.005 0.16
96 0.601 0.368 0.03 0 0.241 0.648 0.112 0 0.12
300 0.757 0.243 0 0 0.338 0.662 0 0 0.068
1,000 0.948 0.052 0 0 0.758 0.242 0 0 0.037
ρ = 0.1 31 0.36 0.351 0.231 0.057 0.11 0.258 0.485 0.147 0.268
55 0.375 0.403 0.211 0.011 0.111 0.367 0.501 0.021 0.215
96 0.368 0.481 0.15 0 0.101 0.552 0.347 0 0.177
300 0.243 0.745 0.012 0 0.04 0.94 0.02 0 0.127
1,000 0.052 0.948 0 0 0.007 0.993 0 0 0.103
ρ = 0.3 31 0.151 0.231 0.367 0.25 0.027 0.099 0.456 0.417 0.381
55 0.089 0.211 0.523 0.178 0.012 0.089 0.663 0.236 0.337
96 0.03 0.15 0.738 0.082 0.003 0.066 0.842 0.089 0.312
300 0 0.012 0.985 0.003 0 0.008 0.989 0.003 0.3
1,000 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0.3
ρ = 0.5 31 0.023 0.058 0.25 0.669 0.002 0.014 0.188 0.796 0.516
55 0.002 0.011 0.178 0.808 0 0.002 0.146 0.851 0.499
96 0 0 0.082 0.918 0 0 0.075 0.925 0.498
300 0 0 0.003 0.997 0 0 0.003 0.997 0.499
1,000 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.5

ρ denotes the effect size in the population, N is the sample size in the original study and replication, and ρS refers to the snapshots of effect size.