descr_extract {si4bayesmeta}R Documentation

Extraction of descriptive statistics from a bayesmeta object

Description

Helper function for extraction of descriptive statistics (mean and sd) from output objects computed by bayesmeta. See Roos et al. (2020) for details.

Usage

descr_extract(res_l, res_0, res_u)

Arguments

res_l

a bayesmeta object subject to a lower perturbation

res_0

a base bayesmeta object without any perturbation

res_u

a bayesmeta object subject to an upper perturbation

Details

Extracts descriptive statistics (mean and sd) from bayesmeta objects.

Value

A table with descriptive statistics (mean and sd) for mu, log(tau), random effects thetai and theta_new.

References

Roos, M., Hunanyan, S., Bakka, H., Rue, H. (2020). Sensitivity and identification quantification by a relative latent model complexity perturbation in the Bayesian meta-analysis. Manuscript submitted to Research Synthesis Methods.


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