R help - Jul 2011 - Extract confidence intervals from rma object (metafor package)

Dear R-experts!

I am working on some meta-analysis using the metafor package. I would like
to extract values of the confidence intervals of the effect sizes of the
single studies from an rma object. Those values are printed out when
plotting a forest plot using the forest function on the rma object, however
I was not able to locate them.

Many thanks for your help!
Jokel

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Dear Jokel,

Right now, none of the functions return that information. But it's easy to
calculate those CIs by hand (simply take yi +- 1.96 sqrt(vi) and apply, if
needed, some appropriate transformation). For example:

data(dat.bcg)
dat <- escalc(measure="RR", ai=tpos, bi=tneg, ci=cpos, di=cneg, 
              data=dat.bcg, append=TRUE)
exp(dat$yi - 1.96*sqrt(dat$vi))
exp(dat$yi + 1.96*sqrt(dat$vi))

gives you approximate 95% CIs for the RRs. The forest functions essentially do
nothing different.

I hope this helps!

Best,

--
Wolfgang Viechtbauer
Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology
School for Mental Health and Neuroscience
Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616
6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
Tel: +31 (43) 368-5248
Fax: +31 (43) 368-8689
Web: http://www.wvbauer.com
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Subject: [R] Extract confidence intervals from rma object (metafor package)

Dear R-experts!

I am working on some meta-analysis using the metafor package. I would like
to extract values of the confidence intervals of the effect sizes of the
single studies from an rma object. Those values are printed out when
plotting a forest plot using the forest function on the rma object, however
I was not able to locate them.

Many thanks for your help!
Jokel

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