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#Confidence intervals around meta-analysed Pearson's rs | |
#equation 4 from Bonett, D. G. (2008). | |
#Meta-analytic interval estimation for bivariate correlations. | |
#Psychological methods, 13(3), 173. | |
#WHAT YOU NEED TO ENTER: Correlation coefficients (cors) and sample size (ns) for each coefficient, plus number of coefficients (m) | |
#Script for following along with example on p. 177 | |
#input correlation coefficients | |
cors <-c(.40,.65,.60,.45) | |
#input sample sizes | |
ns <-c(55, 190, 65, 35) | |
n3 <- ns-3 | |
corsq <- cors*cors | |
corsq2 <- 1-corsq | |
corsq3 <- (corsq2)^2 | |
corsq4 <- corsq3/n3 | |
r.rc <- data.frame(cors = cors, ns = ns, n3 = n3, corsq = corsq, corsq2 = corsq2, corsq3 = corsq3, corsq4 = corsq4) | |
round(r.rc,3) | |
#input number of correlation coefficients HERE (m) | |
m <- 4 | |
mmin2 <-m^-2 | |
#estimated variance p hat | |
v <- sum(corsq4)*mmin2 | |
# = .00261 | |
#point estimate p hat (just mean average of coefficients) | |
pe <-mean(cors) | |
#=.525 | |
#get tanh-1 (p hat) | |
numertan1 <- (1+pe) | |
numertan2 <- (1-pe) | |
numertan3 <- log(numertan1, base = exp(1)) | |
numertan4 <- log(numertan2, base = exp(1)) | |
numertan5 <- numertan3 - numertan4 | |
tanh1 <- numertan5/2 | |
tanh1 | |
# = .583 | |
#get estimated variance of tanh-1 (p hat) | |
dvartanh <- (1-(pe^2))^2 | |
vartanh <- v/dvartanh | |
vartanh | |
# = .00498 | |
#Lower 95% confidence interval | |
lci1 <- vartanh^.5 | |
lci2 <-1.96*lci1 | |
lci3 <- tanh1-lci2 | |
LCI <-tanh(lci3) | |
LCI | |
# = .41766 | |
#Upper 95% confidence interval | |
uci1 <- vartanh^.5 | |
uci2 <-1.96*uci1 | |
uci3 <- tanh1+uci2 | |
UCI <-tanh(uci3) | |
UCI | |
# = .61788 | |
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