similar to: Metafor package: Including multiple (categorical) predictors

Dear R-experts! In a meta-analysis (metafor) I would like to assess the effect of two categorical covariates (A & B) whereas they both have 4 levels. Is my understanding correct that this would require to dummy-code (0,1) each level of each covariate (A & B)? However I am interested in the main-effects and the interaction of these two covariates and the dummy-coding would only allow to

Hello,   I would like to do a meta-analysis with the package « metafor ». Ideally I would like to use a mixed model because I’m interested to see the effect of some moderators. But the data set I managed to collect from literature presents two limits.   -         Firstly, for each observation, I have means for a treatment and for a control, but I don’t always have corresponding standard

Hello metafor users, I'm using metafor to perform a single-effect summary estimate of the raw proportion of patients experiencing a post-operative complication, and I'm interested in seeing if this proportion differs between the three most commonly used surgical techniques. The software is working as expected, but I would like to double check on the interpretation of my mixed-effect model

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 analysis that i want, but have read that

Hi, I'm using metafor to perform a mixed-effects meta-analysis. I'd like to test whether the effect is different for animals and plants/whether "group" (animal/plant) influences the effect size, but am having trouble interpreting the results I get. I've read previous posts about QM in metafor, but I'm still a bit confused. I've dummy-coded the factors:

Dear metafor users, I am working on a meta-analysis of reliability and the correlation associations. I need some help about conducting categorical moderators variables. Questions 1: How to conduct the weighted ANOVAs assuming a mixed-effects model on the tranformed alpha coefficients/the tranformes correlation coefficients for the categorical moderator variables? Questions 2: How to

I had found the author's (Wolfgang Viechtbauer) earlier meta-analytic code in R, MiMa, useful. so I have been exploring metafor using an example dataset from MiMa. metafor provides a lot more. However, MiMa provided parameter estimates, standard errors, z values, etc. for individual moderators in the meta-analysis, but I don't see how to obtain these from metafor. Have you any help

Hello, Great to see the new metafor package for meta-analysis. I would like to perform a meta-analysis in which I initially calculate the intercept of the model with a nested random-effects structure. In lme, this would be model<- lme(v3~1, random=~1|species/study, weights = varFixed(~Wt), method = "REML") where multiple effects sizes are measured for some studies and more than

I'm puzzled by the behaviour of factors in rma models, see example and comments below. I'm sure there's a simple explanation but can't see it... Thanks for any input John Hodgson ------------------------------------- code/selected output ----------------- library(metafor) ## Set up data (from Lenters et al A Meta-analysis of Asbestos and Lung Cancer... ##

Dear users of metafor, I am working on a meta-analysis using the metafor package. I have a excel csv database that I am working with. I am interested in pooling the effect measures for a particular subgroup (European women) in this csv database. I am conducting both sub-group and meta-regression. In subgroup-analyses, I have stratified the database to create a separate csv file just for European

Hi, I am quite new to R and in need of some advice. I am trying to conduct a meta regression over a some studies with about 7 mod variables which I have to dummy encode. I have found the following piece of code in the manual for the metafor library: ### manual dummy coding of the allocation factor alloc.random <- ifelse(dat$alloc == "random", 1, 0) alloc.alternate <-

Dear Dushanthi, Please keep your e-mails on the R-Help list, where Michael has already given you some excellent advice. As Michael already explained, metafor can handle proportions, but does not have any specific functionality for categorical variables with more than 2 levels (at the moment). So, if it is logical and possible to do so, you could collapse the levels of the categorical outcome to 2

A new package is now available via CRAN, called metafor. The metafor package consists of a collection of functions for conducting meta-analyses in R. Fixed- and random-effects models (with and without moderators) can be fitted via the general linear (mixed-effects) model. For 2x2 table data, the Mantel-Haenszel and Peto's method are also implemented. The package also provides various plot

Dear R-experts, Dear Wolfgang, Weighted model fitting in metafor uses the inverse of the study specific variances as weights. I am wondering if it is possible to specify different weights. In my meta-analysis, there are two types of studies with (intrinsic) differences in their range of sample sizes (which are used to calculate the variances of Fisher's z). I would like to try normalizing

Dear All, I'm having trouble tweaking a forest plot made using the R meta-analysis package metafor. I did the analysis based upon the correlation coeff from studies and plotted the corresponding forest plot easily > q2<-rma(yi,vi,mods=cbind(grupo),data=qim) > q2 > forest (q2,transf=transf.ztor,digits=3, ... ,alim=c(0,1),refline=.5) > text(-1.55,42,"Esp?cie

Dear all, I am using R version 2.15.0 and 'metafor' package version 1.6-0. Can this version of the package handle proportions from a categorical dependent variable for single studies?If so how do I set up my dataframe for the raw data from different studies? Also how do I give inputs, specially xi, mi (or ni) to the function escalc()? Thanks,Dushanthi [[alternative HTML

Hi, I am a student using R for my final year project, with the metafor package being particularly helpful. I have been following the steps laid out in the manual 'Conducting Meta-analysis in R with the Metafor package' (Viechtbauer, 2010) and applying it to my own data of infected Anopheles mosquitoes across Africa. In particular, I am attempting to apply a mixed-effect model to my data

Hello, I experimented the Metafor and Meta packages in the scope of replacing Excel for meta-analysis. I performed the first working example provided in Michael Borenstein's book "Introduction to Meta-Analysis" with Excel, Metafor and Meta. The numbers given by my spreadsheet, which I validated from Borenstein's book, conrespond quite closely to those given by Meta, but

Hello, Is it possible to include information about phylogenetic relatedness among species (when species are replicates for each study within a meta-analysis) in a meta-anlaysis in the metafor package? Alternatively, I wonder if the method f Lajeunesse 2009 American Naturalist has been adopted in R in any fashion? Thanks, Scott Chamberlain [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi - I am conducting a meta-analysis and I have a matrix of f-statistics, Ns and dfs from a series of studies that tested for an interaction in a 2x2 anova. I'd like to test whether the 2x2 interaction is significant in the aggregate. Similarly, I have a matrix of chi-square statistics that I'd like to meta-analyze. How can I input these test statistics into the "metafor"