95% CI for proportional meta-analysis to be outside the 0-1 range

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Before drawing conclusions, read this thread, especially this post, with references to the most recent literature.

Subgroup analysis and Meta-regression in Meta-analysis

Without overwhelming the OP, I’ll try to briefly sketch out the disagreement I have with Doi’s representation of the literature on this issue. Starting from first principles – I take Herman Chernoff’s philosophy as a worthwhile perspective: Blockquote With the help of theory, I have developed insights and intuitions that prevent me from giving weight to data dredging and other forms of statistical heresy. This feeling of freedom and ease does not exist until I have a decision theoretic, …