Wrapper to prepare data for Hedges G — hedges_g • chefStats

Wrapper to prepare data for Hedges G

Usage

hedges_g(dat, reference_val, safe_mode = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

dat: data.table. The analysis data set.
reference_val: character. The reference value of the treatment variable in the data.
safe_mode: Boolean determining if the function should fail when given input that cannot be calculated (safe_mode = TRUE), or if it should silently return a NA value (default
...: optional arguments to

Value

A list containing Hedges G statistics.

Examples

dat <- data.table::data.table(
  treatment_val = c("Active", "Active", "Active", "Placebo", "Placebo", "Placebo"),
  stat_var      = rep(c("N_sub", "mean_value", "sd_value"), 2),
  stat_val      = c(50, 12.3, 2.1, 50, 10.1, 2.5)
)
hedges_g(dat, reference_val = "Placebo")
#> $pe
#> [1] 0.9456143
#> 
#> $upper
#> [1] 1.358934
#> 
#> $lower
#> [1] 0.5322945
#>