Test for heterogeneity

A chi-squared test (on \(k - 1\) degrees of freedom) for heterogeneity given a vector of \(k\) independent estimates and their standard errors.

Usage

heterogeneity(beta, se)

Arguments

beta

vector of independent estimates

se

vector of their standard errors

Value

A named list:

• test statistic (chi-squared test statistic)

• degrees of freedom (number of degrees of freedom used for the test, equal to length(beta)-1)

• p (p-value)

Details

See vignette("trend_heterogeneity") for details.