Publication Bias in Meta-Analysis: Confidence Intervals for Rosenthal’s Fail-Safe Number

Table 1

Schematic table for simulation plan.

	Variance formula for normal approximation confidence intervals		Bootstrap; confidence interval	Real; value of
	Distributional	Moments
studies; Draw from ,; ,; SN,; SN	Fixed (standard normal distribution values , ; half normal distribution , ; skew normal with negative skewness , ; skew normal with positive skewness , )	Fixed	Using the we compute the and respectively the standard error needed to compute the confidence interval	Fixed (standard normal distribution values , ; half normal distribution , ; skew normal with negative skewness , ; skew normal with positive skewness , )
	Random (standard normal distribution values , ; half normal distribution , ; skew normal with negative skewness , ; skew normal with positive skewness , ; )		Using the we compute the and respectively the standard error needed to compute the confidence interval	Random (standard normal distribution values , ; half normal distribution , ; skew normal with negative skewness , ; skew normal with positive skewness , ; )