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[R-meta] methods for assessing publication bias while accounting for dependency

Dear Brendan,

unsurprisingly Wolfgang was faster than me so I'll just add one more 
reference (with further references) if your curious about the problems 
of some methods (e.g. trim and fill) even in a basic two-level 
meta-analysis:
Carter, E. C., Sch?nbrodt, F. D., Gervais, W. M., & Hilgard, J. (2019). 
Correcting for Bias in Psychology: A Comparison of Meta-Analytic 
Methods. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 
115?144. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245919847196


One other possibility to address publication bias when dealing with 
dependent effect sizes is to conduct a moderator analysis comparing 
journal articles with other sources (e.g. conference proceedings, 
dissertations). If one is willing to assume that the latter are more 
similar to unpublished literature than journal articles then the results 
of this moderator analysis approximate the mangnitude of publication 
bias. Obviously, it is only some kind of sensitivity analysis and not 
the perfect estimate of publication bias.


Best,
Lukasz