meta

General Package for Meta-Analysis

CRAN Package

User-friendly general package providing standard methods for meta-analysis and supporting Schwarzer, Carpenter, and Rücker doi:10.1007/978-3-319-21416-0, "Meta-Analysis with R" (2015): - common effect and random effects meta-analysis; - several plots (forest, funnel, Galbraith / radial, L'Abbe, Baujat, bubble); - three-level meta-analysis model; - generalised linear mixed model; - logistic regression with penalised likelihood for rare events; - Hartung-Knapp method for random effects model; - Kenward-Roger method for random effects model; - prediction interval; - statistical tests for funnel plot asymmetry; - trim-and-fill method to evaluate bias in meta-analysis; - meta-regression; - cumulative meta-analysis and leave-one-out meta-analysis; - import data from 'RevMan 5'; - produce forest plot summarising several (subgroup) meta-analyses.


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Last 30 days

This package has been downloaded 47,843 times in the last 30 days. The academic equivalent of having a dedicated subreddit. There are fans, and maybe even a few trolls! The following heatmap shows the distribution of downloads per day. Yesterday, it was downloaded 1,588 times.

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Last 365 days

This package has been downloaded 393,786 times in the last 365 days. Practically an academic rockstar! That's enough downloads to cause murmurs at international conferences. The day with the most downloads was Dec 14, 2024 with 10,413 downloads.

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  • Imports9 packages
  • Suggests9 packages
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