Wolfgang Viechtbauer<p>Together with colleagues from Spain, we recently conducted a comprehensive simulation study examining the performance of various types of tests and methods for constructing confidence intervals for the scale coefficients in meta-analytic location-scale models. Although things are complex, generally the likelihood-ratio test and corresponding profile-likelihood intervals performed best. See here for further details: <a href="https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-025-02622-5" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.3758/s13428-025-026</span><span class="invisible">22-5</span></a></p><p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Statistics</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/MetaAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MetaAnalysis</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ResearchSynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ResearchSynthesis</span></a></p>