SAMURAI: Sensitivity analysis of a meta-analysis with unpublished but registered analytical investigations (software)

Table 6 Summary effects for the greentea dataset after all unpublished studies assigned the same outlook

Scenario number	Outlook assigned to all 3 unpublished studies	Standardized mean difference (SMD) assigned to all unpublished studies	Summary effect	Lower 95% confidence limit	Upper 95% confidence limit	τ ²
1	very positive	−0.8	−0.411	−1.013	0.192	1.256
2	positive	−0.3	−0.519	−1.057	0.019	0.991
3	no effect	0	−0.586	−1.092	−0.080	0.868
4	negative	0.3	−0.651	−1.135	−0.166	0.791
5	very negative	0.8	−0.759	−1.230	−0.287	0.744
6	very positive CL	LCL _{pub, 1-α}	−0.877	−1.368	−0.386	0.810
7	positive CL	$0.5 ({\hat{SMD}}_{pub} + LC L_{pub, 1 - α})$	−0.814	−1.290	−0.338	0.761
8	current	${\hat{SMD}}_{pub}$	−0.748	−1.219	−0.277	0.744
9	negative CL	$0.5 ({\hat{SMD}}_{pub} + UC L_{pub, 1 - α})$	−0.681	−1.159	−0.204	0.767
10	very negative CL	UCL _{pub, 1-α}	−0.614	−1.110	−0.119	0.830

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