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Rosenthal's fail-safe number Nr
Description
Rosenthal's fail-safe number Nr.
Usage
rosenthal(stat, se, alpha = 0.05)
Arguments
stat |
A vector with the statistics. |
se |
A vector with the standard errors of the stat. |
alpha |
The significance level, set to 0.05 by default. |
Details
The function Calculates of Rosenthal's fail-safe number Nr.
Value
A vector with two values, Rosenthal's fail-safe number Nr and the rule of
thumb, 5k + 10, where k denotes the number of studies.
Author(s)
Michail Tsagris and Constantinos Frangos
R implementation and documentation: Michail Tsagris mtsagris@uoc.gr and Constantinos Frangos kfragkos@outlook.com.
References
Konstantinos C. Fragkos, Michail Tsagris and Christos C. Frangos (2017). Exploring the distribution for the estimator of Rosenthal's "fail-safe" number of unpublished studies in meta-analysis. Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, 46(11):5672–5684.
Rosenthal R. (1979). The file drawer problem and tolerance for null results. Psychological Bulletin, 86, 638–641.
See Also
truncnorm.nr.density, den.plot, convergence.rate
Examples
stat <- rnorm(30, 3, 0.2)
se <- rchisq(30, 1)
rosenthal(stat, se)