method.PET: PET (Precision-Effect Test) Method

In PublicationBiasBenchmark: Benchmark for Publication Bias Correction Methods

PET (Precision-Effect Test) Method

Description

Implements the Precision-Effect Test for publication bias correction. PET regresses effect sizes against standard errors to test for and correct publication bias. The intercept represents the bias-corrected effect size estimate. See \insertCitestanley2014meta;textualPublicationBiasBenchmark for details.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'PET'
method(method_name, data, settings = NULL)

Arguments

method_name	Method name (automatically passed)
data	Data frame with yi (effect sizes) and sei (standard errors)
settings	List of method settings (no settings version are implemented)

Value

Data frame with PET results

Author(s)

František Bartoš [e-mail]

References

\insertAllCited

Examples

# Generate some example data
data <- data.frame(
  yi = c(0.2, 0.3, 0.1, 0.4, 0.25),
  sei = c(0.1, 0.15, 0.08, 0.12, 0.09)
)

# Apply PET method
result <- run_method("PET", data)
print(result)

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