Supplementary Materials: Variable selection in linear mixed model meta-regression with suspected interaction effects - How can tree-based methods help?

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Supplementary Material to the Manuscript
"Variable selection in linear mixed model meta-regression with suspected interaction effects - How can tree-based methods help?"
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The files provided here constitute the Supplementary Material for the manuscript containing:
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<li>A PDF file containing all supporting tables and figures.</li>
<li>The code and results of the re-analysis of the meta-analysis by Kimmoun et al. (Section 3 of the manuscript)</li>
<li>Simulation study materials (Section 4)
All relevant files for the simulation study, in particular the simulated data and the R code on which the simulations are based (Section 4 of the manuscript). </li>
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The folder structure for the code and output files is explained in the Readme.txt file.

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Authors:<br>
Jan-Bernd Igelmann, ORCiD: <a href="https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6994-4945">0009-0001-6994-4945</a><sup>a</sup><br>
Paula Lorenz, ORCiD: <a href="https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1949-400X">0009-0001-1949-400X</a><sup>a</sup><br>
Markus Pauly, ORCiD: <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0976-7190">0000-0002-0976-7190</a><sup>a,b</sup>
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<sup>a</sup> Department of Statistics, TU Dortmund University, Germany<br>
<sup>b</sup> Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security, UA Ruhr, Germany
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Contact:<br>
Jan-Bernd Igelmann: <a href="mailto:[e-mail]">[e-mail]</a>
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