BC_normal_m1m0: Bhattacharyya coefficient between two normal densities: the...
In si4bayesmeta: Sensitivity and Identification for the Bayesian Meta-Analysis

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Computes the Bhattacharyya coefficient (the mean-part) between two normal densities with means m1 and m0 and standard deviations sd1 and sd0

1	BC_normal_m1m0(m1, sd1, m0, sd0)

`m1`	mean of the first normal density
`sd1`	standard deviation of the first normal density
`m0`	mean of the second normal density
`sd0`	standard deviation of the second normal density

The function returns the mean-part of the BC under normal approximation according to Roos et al. (2020). The mean-part is adjusted for standard deviations which corresponds to the Mahalanobis distance. This part quantifies the location modification.

A numeric value is returned.

Roos, M., Hunanyan, S., Bakka, H., Rue, H. (2020). Sensitivity and identification quantification by a relative latent model complexity perturbation in the Bayesian meta-analysis. Manuscript submitted to Research Synthesis Methods.