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Table 6 Convergence rate and false heterogeneity detection rate of the logistic-normal and beta-binomial model

From: Methods for meta-analysis and meta-regression of binomial data: concepts and tutorial with Stata command metapreg

\(\pi\)

Model

3 studies

5 studies

0.2

logistic-normal

99.99 (1.01)

100 (1.51)

beta-binomial

52.04 (1.97)

53.49 (2.84)

0.5

logistic-normal

99.98 (0.90)

99.97 (1.40)

beta-binomial

48.91 (1.84)

52.96 (2.64)

0.9

logistic-normal

100 (0.91)

100 (1.59)

beta-binomial

47.39 (1.98)

52.47 (3.02)