metap (version 1.0)

votep: Combine p-values by the vote counting method

Description

Combine \(p\)-values by the vote counting method

Usage

votep(p, alpha = c(0.5, 0.5))
# S3 method for votep
print(x, ...)

Arguments

p

A vector of \(p\)-values

alpha

A vector of length 2 defining the significance values

x

An object of class ‘votep’

...

Other arguments to be passed through

Value

An object of class ‘votep’ and ‘votep’, a list with entries

p

\(p\) value

pos

Number of positives

neg

Number of negatives

alpha

A vector of length 2 defining the significance values and lying in the range 0 to 1

validp

The input vector with illegal values removed

Details

By default splits the \(p\)-values at 0.5 with those below counting as positive and those above counting as negative. However setting alpha allows for a different choice of cut-off and also by specifying two different values for a neutral zone. If either value of alpha is greater than unity it is assumed to be a percentage.

The values of \(p\) should be such that \(0\le{}p\le{}1\) and a warning is issued if this is not true An error occurs if possibly as a result of deletion fewer than two studies remain.

The plot method for class ‘metap’ calls schweder on the valid \(p\)-values

References

becker94metap

See Also

See also schweder

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(beckerp)
votep(beckerp)
# }