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Dear Metafor users, I'm conducting a metaanalysis of prevalence of a particular behaviour based on someone elses' code. I've been labouring under the impression that this: summary(rma.1<-rma(yi,vi,mods=cbind(approxmeanage,interviewmethodcode),data=mal,method="DL",knha=F,weighted=F,intercept=T)) is doing the multivariate anal...

...he exact formula for how this is being done. I''m trying to track down a copy of Hedges and Olkin (1985), but it would be great in the meantime somebody could enlighten me. Thanks, Stephen Ban *p. 226. Cooper, H., Hedges, L., and Valentine, J. The handbook of research synthesis and metaanalysis. Russell Sage Foundation, 2009. Stephen Ban, M.Sc. Ph.D. Candidate Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies James Cook University Townsville, Queensland 4811 Australia Phone: +61 7 4781 6063 Fax: +61 7 4781 6722 <mailto:stephen.ban@jcu.edu.au> stephe...

Hi all, Which is a formal bibliography citation of an R's task view? For example if I want to make a citation of "MetaAnalysis" task view. Thanks in advance! Pablo

Dear Willem, Personally, I use the R-forge project for the distribution CTV : https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/ctv/ It?s an alternative option to github. Regards, Christophe --------------------------------------- Christophe Dutang LMM, UdM, Le Mans, France web: http://dutangc.free.fr Le 23 janv. 2015 ? 12:49, Luca Braglia <lbraglia at gmail.com> a ?crit : > Hi Willem >

R Experts: I am conducting a meta-analysis where the effect measures to be pooled are simple proportions. For example, consider this data from Fleiss/Levin/Paik's Statistical methods for rates and proportions (2003, p189) on smokers: Study N Event P(Event) 1 86 83 0.965 2 93 90 0.968 3 136 129 0.949 4 82 70 0.854 Total