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[R-meta] How to define Rosenthal & Rubin's Proportion Index?

3 messages · Patrizio E Tressoldi, Wolfgang Viechtbauer, Guido Schwarzer

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Il 05/09/2019 00:00, r-sig-meta-analysis-request at r-project.org ha scritto:
Thank you for this implementation in metafor, however a trick of this
effect size is that values above .5 are related to a positive effect
(hits above chance) and viceversa.

Running a fixed or random model? in metafor, all values are considered
as positive. Do I have to calculate the dat$yi subtracting .5?

And if this adjustment is correct, the calculation of dat$vi remains the
same?


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No, you shouldn't subtract 0.5 if you want to estimate what Rosenthal and Rubin call bar(pi) (e.g., 0.78 as given at the bottom left on page 335). If you would subtract 0.5 from each yi value, then you would be estimating bar(pi) - 0.5.

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).

Best,
Wolfgang

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Il 05/09/2019 00:00, r-sig-meta-analysis-request at r-project.org ha scritto:
Thank you for this implementation in metafor, however a trick of this
effect size is that values above .5 are related to a positive effect
(hits above chance) and viceversa.

Running a fixed or random model? in metafor, all values are considered
as positive. Do I have to calculate the dat$yi subtracting .5?

And if this adjustment is correct, the calculation of dat$vi remains the
same?

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
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Am 05.09.19 um 18:53 schrieb Viechtbauer, Wolfgang (SP):
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