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Message-ID: <dffe247f-fa6a-61d9-57dc-2c08e92ef3eb@imbi.uni-freiburg.de>
Date: 2019-09-05T21:30:27Z
From: Guido Schwarzer
Subject: [R-meta] How to define Rosenthal & Rubin's Proportion Index?
In-Reply-To: <29986b7e68fc4e0eaf6ac2f3170af170@UM-MAIL3214.unimaas.nl>

Am 05.09.19 um 18:53 schrieb Viechtbauer, Wolfgang (SP):
> [...]
> However, if you want to test H0: bar(pi) = 0.5, then yes, first subtract 0.5 from each yi value (and no change to vi is needed).

Or, you could use metagen() from R package meta which has an argument 
'null.effect' to specify the null hypothesis:

metagen(yi, sqrt(vi), data = dat, null.effect = 0.5)

Best wishes, Guido

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