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Table 4 Heterogeneity and inconsistency in the antidepressants example

From: A graphical tool for locating inconsistency in network meta-analyses

Q statistic

Number of studies

Degrees of freedom

p value

Q net

119.6

111

113-11=102

0.113

Q inc

36.9

111

44-11=33

0.293

Q het

82.7

111

113-44=69

0.125

  1. The Q statistic for the whole network, for inconsistency and for heterogeneity within designs are shown. In addition, the number of studies on which they are based, the degrees of freedom of the corresponding chi-squared distributions and the corresponding p values are displayed.