Table 3.

Uncorrected and worst‐case point estimates (HR) for the cancer meta‐analysis of Li et al. (2018)

Model	${\widehat{\mu }}^{\prime }$	CI for ${\widehat{\mu }}^{\prime }$	$\widehat{\tau }$	CI for $\widehat{\tau }$
Uncorrected
Common effect	0.79	[0.76, 0.82]	—	—
Standard†	0.79	[0.71, 0.89]	0.36	[0.26, 0.44]
Robust (independent)	0.80	[0.71, 0.89]	—	—
Robust (clustered)	0.82	[0.74, 0.91]	—	—
Worst case
Common effect	1.04	[0.98, 1.10]
Robust (independent)	1.05	[0.97, 1.14]
Robust (clustered)	1.03	[0.94, 1.12]

†Standard: parametric random‐effects meta‐analysis assuming independence, included for comparison. $\widehat{\tau }$ and its CI are presented on the log(HR)‐scale, the scale on which the data were analysed.