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Report tau or exp(tau) rather than tau-squared in random-effects meta-analyses – ADDENDUM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2026

Mark D. Chatfield Open the ORCID record for Mark D. Chatfield [Opens in a new window] ,
Louise Marquart-Wilson ,
Annette Dobson  and
Daniel Farewell
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Research Synthesis Methods , First View , pp. 1
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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for Research Synthesis Methodology

After acceptance, the authors provided the code and dataset associated with the article to Research Synthesis Methods in order to comply with the journal’s control step for reproducibility. The article was passed through that control step.

The code and data should have been published alongside the article, but were inadvertently excluded from the supplementary materials section.

The supplementary materials section of the original article has been updated to include the data and code.

The publisher apologises for the error.

References

Chatfield, MD, Marquart-Wilson, L, Dobson, A, Farewell, D. Report tau or exp(tau) rather than tau-squared in random-effects meta-analyses. Research Synthesis Methods. Published online 2026:1–5. doi:10.1017/rsm.2026.10075 Google Scholar