fisherMethod: Combine p-values using Fisher method

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Combine p-values using Fisher method

Description

Fisher's method is a meta-analysis technique used to combine the results from independent statistical tests with the same hypothesis (Wikipedia article).

Usage

fisherMethod(p.value, lower.tail = FALSE, log.p = TRUE)

Arguments

p.value	a numeric vector of p-values to combine.
lower.tail	logical; if TRUE (default), probabilities are P[X \le x], otherwise, P[X > x].
log.p	logical; if TRUE, probabilities p are given as log(p).

Value

a number giving combined p-value.

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