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TOSTER R package and jamovi module

TOSTER v0.8.2

Fixed error with describe method for minimal effects test for TOSTt objects.

Small correction to the displayed equation for Cohen’s ds standard error. Thank you to Matthew B Jané for finding this error.
Added bootstrap options such as boot_smd_calc and boot_ses_calc.
- Many functions also now allow for different CI methods for bootstrapped results.

Added Brunner-Munzel test
Updated documentation to include lifecycle labels
Created new function for two proportions tests (twoprop_test)
- And power power_twoprop
Created new function for power for correlations (power_z_cor)
Deprecated old functions

Add correlation functions z_cor_test, boot_cor_test, corsum_test, boot_compare_cor, and simple_htest
Add describe method to provide verbose output for analyses
- Alternative describe_htest function for htest objects

Changed Glass’s delta SE for paired samples (minor).
Added smd_calc and ses_calc for just calculating the standardized effect sizes (no tests).
Default CIs for for SMDs are now NCT rather than the Goulet method.
compare_smd can be supplied with user provided standard errors.
Add log_TOST and boot_log_TOST function for comparing ratios of means.
Reduce the amount of text in the print methods

Added “compare” functions.
- compare_smd: Compare 2 SMDs from summary statistics
- boot_compare_smd: Compare 2 SMDs from raw data
- compare_cor: Compare 2 independent correlations
Added additional SMD options
- Confidence intervals can now be estimated using other methods
- smd_ci can be used to set the confidence interval method
- Glass’s delta can now be calculated using the glass argument
Added additional standardized effect sizes for wilcox_TOST
- ses argument can be set to “r”, “odds”, or “cstat”
- Respectively, these will provide the rank-biserial correlation, odds, or concordance probability

Changes:

New t_TOST function
- Generalized function for TOST for any type of t-test
- S3 generic methods to print and plot results
New power_t_TOST function
- Generalized function for t_TOST power analysis
- Outputs the an object of power.htest class
Updated all jamovi functions to allow minimal effect tests
- Direction of one-sided tests now allows
Added equ_anova and equ_ftest
- Now allows equivalence (also called non-inferiority)
jamovi functions using t-test have more plotting options
Error in powerTOSTtwo fixed when determining N
All old t-test based TOST functions now have message telling users they are defunct
All TOST procedures have text results changed to provide more appropriate feedback.

Changes:

Added a verbose = FALSE option to all functions.
Added Fisher’s z transformed CI to output of TOSTr.
Cleaned up the text and numeric output of the functions.
Renamed some variable names in the TOSTtwo.prop function for similarity with TOSTmeta.
Added warnings and error messages for possible incorrect input when using the functions.

Changes:

Error in order in which p-value 1 and p-value 2 were reported for TOSTr due to incorrect use of abs(r) in function. (thanks to Nils Kroemer and Dan Quintana)
Fixed error in powerTOSTr function - instead of based on conversion to d, new function calculates directly from r and is more accurate.
Added testthat folder and initial unit tests.

Changes:

Error in sensitivity analyses of powerTOSTpaired.raw, powerTOSTone.raw, powerTOSTtwo.raw where output was in Cohen’s d - now changed to output in raw scores, added sd to examples. (thanks to Lisa DeBruine)
Raw power functions still output ceiling N in message, but exact N in output value

Changes:

Error in TOSTpaired.raw where t-test for TOST multiplied by sdiff (copied from TOSTpaired function) removed. CI were correct, but p-values did not match. Now tests are correct. (thanks to ontogenerator)
Changed text in TOSTr function (text copied from t-test script now changed to correlation)