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meta: General Package for Meta-Analysis

Official GitHub repository of R package meta

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Description

User-friendly general package providing standard methods for meta-analysis and supporting Schwarzer, Carpenter, and Rücker, "Meta-Analysis with R" (2015), http://meta-analysis-with-r.org/ :

  • fixed effect and random effects meta-analysis;
  • several plots (forest, funnel, Galbraith / radial, L'Abbe, Baujat, bubble);
  • statistical tests and trim-and-fill method to evaluate bias in meta-analysis;
  • import data from 'RevMan 5';
  • prediction interval, Hartung-Knapp and Paule-Mandel method for random effects model;
  • cumulative meta-analysis and leave-one-out meta-analysis;
  • meta-regression (if R package 'metafor' is installed);
  • generalised linear mixed models (if R packages 'metafor', 'lme4', 'numDeriv', and 'BiasedUrn' are installed).

References

Schwarzer G, Carpenter JR and Rücker G (2015), Meta-Analysis with R (Use-R!). Springer International Publishing, Switzerland

Installation

Current official CRAN Version release:

install.packages("meta")

Current beta / GitHub release:

install.packages("devtools")
library("devtools")
install_github("guido-s/meta")

Bug Reports:

bug.report(package = "meta")

The bug.report function is not supported in RStudio. Please send an email to Guido Schwarzer sc@imbi.uni-freiburg.de if you use RStudio.