Prediction Interval

Description

Calculates a prediction interval for the summary parameters of Riley's alternative model for bivariate random-effects meta-analysis. This interval predicts in what range future observations will fall given what has already been observed.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'riley'
predict(object, level = 0.95, ...)

Arguments

Details

Prediction intervals are based on Student's t-distribution with (numstudies - 5) degrees of freedom.

Value

Array containing prediction intervals for the summary estimates beta1 and beta2 (for effect size data), or for the mean sensitivity and false positive rate (diagnostic test accuracy data).

Author(s)

Thomas Debray <thomas.debray@gmail.com>

See Also

riley

Results