ABSTRACT

So far we have illustrated all the concepts in the output from meta-analysis

using R except heterogeneity measures. Discerning readers may have noticed

that whenever we called metabin or metacont from R package meta for meta-

analysis as seen in Chapters 4 and 5, two other items appeared in the output

as Quantifying heterogeneity and Test of heterogeneity. These hetero-

geneity measures are discussed in this chapter.