Research Article

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

Table 3

Confidence intervals for the examples of meta-analyses.

Fixed number of studiesRandom number of studies Bootstrap based CI
Distribution
based CI
Moment
based CI
Distribution
based CI
Moment
based CI

Study 1 [24]
Rosenthal’s
(2060, 2188)(788, 3460)(2059, 2189)(369, 3879)(740, 3508)

Study 2 [25]
Rosenthal’s
(73709, 74012)(51618, 96102)(73707, 74013)(40976, 106745)(51662, 96059)