fsn (version 0.4)

Rosenthal's fail-safe number Nr: Rosenthal's fail-safe number Nr

Description

Rosenthal's fail-safe number Nr.

Usage

rosenthal(stat, se, alpha = 0.05)

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.

Arguments

stat

A vector with the statistics (be careful: not the test statistics).

se

A vector with the standard errors of the stat.

alpha

The significance level, set to 0.05 by default.

Author

Michail Tsagris and Constantinos Frangos

R implementation and documentation: Michail Tsagris and Constantinos Frangos .

Details

The function Calculates of Rosenthal's fail-safe number Nr.

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 Exploring the distribution for the estimator of Rosenthal's "fail-safe" number of unpublished studies in meta-analysis.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)