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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks Dr Viechtbauer,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I asked our statistician (Steve Méthot) to run the suggested model in SAS for me and he had to make 1 modification to get P-value and CIs for x1 (not reported in the output otherwise).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">model y = intcpt x1 / solution cl noint ddf=10000;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA">was changed for :<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<pre><span lang="FR-CA">model y = intcpt x1 / solution cl noint ddf=10000,10000;<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We got the exact same results except for fit statistics which differ a little bit but I guess this depends on the way each program calculates them.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<pre style="line-height:11.25pt;background:white;word-break:break-all"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Console";color:black">Multivariate Meta-Analysis Model (k = 192; method: REML)<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="line-height:11.25pt;background:white;word-break:break-all"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Console";color:black"> logLik Deviance AIC BIC AICc <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="line-height:11.25pt;background:white;word-break:break-all"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Console";color:black">-1083.9130 2167.8260 2175.8260 2188.8141 2176.0422 <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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