metafor

Meta-Analysis Package for R

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.

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Imports/Depends/LinkingTo/Enhances (5)
  • R
  • metadat
  • numDeriv
  • mathjaxr
  • pbapply
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  • lme4
  • pracma
  • minqa
  • nloptr
  • dfoptim
  • ucminf
  • lbfgsb3c
  • subplex
  • BB
  • Rsolnp
  • alabama
  • optimParallel
  • CompQuadForm
  • mvtnorm
  • BiasedUrn
  • Epi
  • GLMMadaptive
  • glmmTMB
  • multcomp
  • gsl
  • sp
  • ape
  • clubSandwich
  • crayon
  • R.rsp
  • testthat
  • rmarkdown
  • wildmeta
  • emmeans
  • estmeansd
  • metaBLUE
  • rstudioapi
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