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[R-meta] Reproducing results using regtest in metafor

Dear James

Thank you for taking the time to think about this and write. I think your approach of writing the model out is a good one for discussing exactly what is going on "under the hood".

Your justification of the degrees of freedom seems sound - much appreciated.

I am still a little uncertain about the model specification because an additive random effect is specified in the initial meta-regression using the rma command. But then a multiplicative error is specified in the regtest command. These probably dont have any bearing on the degrees of freedom, but I would greatly appreciate it if someone could explain how these are jointly implemented.

With very best wishes

Alex
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