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Rare events are events which occur with low frequencies. These often arise in clinical trials or cohort studies where the data are arranged in binary contingency tables. In this article, we investigate the estimation of effect heterogeneity for the risk‐ratio parameter in meta‐analysis of rare events studies through two likelihood‐based nonparametric mixture approaches: an arm‐based and a contrast‐based...