A comprehensive collection of functions for conducting meta-analyses in R. The package includes functions to calculate various effect sizes or outcome measures, fit fixed-, random-, and mixed-effects models to such data, carry out moderator and meta-regression analyses, and create various types of meta-analytical plots (e.g., forest, funnel, radial, L'Abbe, Baujat, GOSH plots). For meta-analyses of binomial and person-time data, the package also provides functions that implement specialized methods, including the Mantel-Haenszel method, Peto's method, and a variety of suitable generalized linear (mixed-effects) models (i.e., mixed-effects logistic and Poisson regression models). Finally, the package provides functionality for fitting meta-analytic multivariate/multilevel models that account for non-independent sampling errors and/or true effects (e.g., due to the inclusion of multiple treatment studies, multiple endpoints, or other forms of clustering). Network meta-analyses and meta-analyses accounting for known correlation structures (e.g., due to phylogenetic relatedness) can also be conducted.
| Version: | 1.9-9 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.2.0), methods, Matrix |
| Imports: | stats, utils, graphics, grDevices |
| Suggests: | lme4, numDeriv, minqa, nloptr, dfoptim, ucminf, CompQuadForm, mvtnorm, Formula, R.rsp, testthat, BiasedUrn, survival, Epi, multcomp, gsl, boot |
| Published: | 2016-09-25 |
| Author: | Wolfgang Viechtbauer [aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: | Wolfgang Viechtbauer <wvb at metafor-project.org> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/wviechtb/metafor/issues |
| License: | GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)] |
| URL: | http://www.metafor-project.org https://github.com/wviechtb/metafor http://www.wvbauer.com |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Citation: | metafor citation info |
| Materials: | README NEWS |
| In views: | ClinicalTrials, MetaAnalysis, Phylogenetics |
| CRAN checks: | metafor results |
| Reference manual: | metafor.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
Conducting Meta-Analyses in R with the metafor Package Diagram of Functions in the metafor Package |
| Package source: | metafor_1.9-9.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: metafor_1.9-9.zip, r-release: metafor_1.9-9.zip, r-oldrel: metafor_1.9-9.zip |
| OS X Mavericks binaries: | r-release: metafor_1.9-9.tgz, r-oldrel: metafor_1.9-9.tgz |
| Old sources: | metafor archive |
| Reverse depends: | hetmeta, MCPerm, SAMURAI |
| Reverse imports: | fmri, MAVIS, metagear, metagen, metaplus, NSM3, RcmdrPlugin.MA, reproducer, xmeta |
| Reverse suggests: | bayesmeta, clubSandwich, forestmodel, MAc, MAd, meta, metaplotr, metaSEM, mvmeta |
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