ci {meta}R Documentation

Calculation of confidence intervals (normal approximation)

Description

Calculation of confidence intervals; based on normal approximation.

Usage

ci(TE, seTE, level=0.95)

Arguments

TE Estimated treatment effect.
seTE Standard error of treatment estimate.
level The confidence level required.

Value

List with components

TE Estimated treatment effect.
seTE Standard error of treatment estimate.
lower Lower confidence limits.
upper Upper confidence limits.
zscore Test statistic.
p P-value of test with null hypothesis TE=0.
level The confidence level required.

Note

This function is primarily called from other functions of the library meta, e.g. plot.meta, summary.meta.

Author(s)

Guido Schwarzer sc@imbi.uni-freiburg.de

Examples

as.data.frame(ci(170, 10))
as.data.frame(ci(170, 10, 0.99))

[Package meta version 0.9-18 Index]