Computes the variance of treatment effects for a trial based on the specified family distribution.
Usage
calculate_trial_variance(ald, tid, effect, family)
Arguments
- ald
Aggregate-level data.
- tid
Treatment identifier used to extract relevant columns from ald.
- effect
A character string specifying the effect scale (e.g., "log_odds", "risk_difference").
- family
A character string specifying the model family (e.g., "binomial", "gaussian").
Value
The computed variance of treatment effects.