PubBias: Assess for Publication Bias

In MAd: Meta-Analysis with Mean Differences

Assess for Publication Bias

Description

Assess for publication bias in the meta-analytic data

Usage

PubBias(data)

Arguments

data	data.frame having been analyzed by the weights function with id and z.score (standardized z-value).

Value

k	Number of studies.
Z	Overall z-value for data set.
k0	Number of studies needed to include with effect size = 0 (null) in order for the p > .05 (null hypothesis retained).
k.per	Number of missing studies for every observed study for the overall effect to be nullified.

Author(s)

AC Del Re & William T. Hoyt

Maintainer: AC Del Re [e-mail]

References

Sutton, A. J. (2009). Publication bias. In H. Cooper, L. V. Hedges, & J. C. Valentine (Eds.), The handbook of research synthesis and meta analysis (pp. 435-452). New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

See Also

weights

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