[R-meta] Random-effects meta-analyses with inverse-variance weights cannot include studies with sample sizes of two?
Il 08/11/2018 16:31, Viechtbauer, Wolfgang (SP) ha scritto:
I wonder what effect size / oucome measure can sensibly be computed based on two subjects. For example, for measures based on two groups (e.g., raw or standardized mean difference, risk difference, log risk/odds ratios), this would imply that there is a single subject in each group.
Precisely. In this specific case, two single participants contributed to a percentage of hits, e.g. .30 and .40 I expect that the sample estimation is quite poor, but I don't see any impediment on obtaining an effect size, or not? Best Patrizio -- Patrizio E. Tressoldi Ph.D. Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale Universit? di Padova via Venezia 8 35131 Padova - ITALY http://www.patriziotressoldi.it https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6404-0058 Science of Consciousness Research Group http://dpg.unipd.it/en/soc Make war history support http://www.emergency.it