A Microsofit Fortran 77 Program for Determining the Confidence Interval Around the Estimate of the Population Correlation Coefficient for the Vote-Counting Method

Abstract

A FORTRAN 77 program is presented that determines the confidence interval around the estimate of the population correlation coefficient via normal and chi-square approximations for large sample sizes and an exact method via the binomial distribution for small sample sizes. This program is used in the vote-counting method of meta-analysis.

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