Table 6. Meta-regression1 .
Parameters | Coefficient | Standard errors | t | P>|t| | [95% Conf. Interval] |
Disease 2 | -0.42 | 0.25 | -1.66 | 0.112 | [-0.94, 0.1] |
Disease 3 | 0.9 | 0.43 | 2.06 | 0.053 | [-0.01, 1.82] |
Sample size | 0.002 | 0.001 | 2.16 | 0.043 | [0.001, 0.002] |
Age | -0.05 | 0.03 | -1.77 | 0.092 | [-0.115, 0.009] |
Constant | 3.77 | 1.69 | 2.23 | 0.037 | [0.24 , 7.29] |
Meta-regression | Number of obs= 25 | ||||
REML estimate of between-study variance | Tau2 = 0.155 | ||||
% residual variation due to heterogeneity | I-squared_res = 53.88% | ||||
Proportion of between-study variance explained | Adj R-squared = 66.71% | ||||
Joint test for all covariates | Model F(4,20) = 6.57 | ||||
Prob> F | 0.0015 |