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Dear List, I'm using glmulti for model averaging in R. There are ~10 variables in my model, making exhaustive screening impractical - I therefore need to use the genetic algorithm (GA) (call: method = "g"). I need to include random effects so I'm using glmulti as a wrapper for lme4. Methods for doing this are available here

Hello, I'm using the "glmulti" package to run models of all the possible combinations of my variables. However, I am only interested in a few interactions between my variables. I have tried the equivalent of: mod1<-lm(y~a+b+c+a:b) glmulti(mod1, level=1) mod2<-lm(y~a+b+c+a:b) glmulti(mod2, level=2) and glmulti("y", c("a", "b", "c"),

Dear R, The glmulti package no longer loads through the library() command, apparently because of a problem with rJava. I have today reinstalled R from scratch (updated to v2.14.0) and reinstalled all packages from scratch and updated them all too. The problem is the same as I found on v2.13.2. See session below for the error. I tried install.packages(rJava) as advised by the error report but it

Dear all, I have a question about the glmulti package. I want to include some variables in all models. To that end I applied the wrapper function as shown in the examples (http://www.inside-r.org/packages/cran/glmulti/docs/glmulti). To include the variable "Geslacht" in all models: > glm.redefined = function(formula, data, always="", ...)

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 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

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... ##

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

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

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:

Hi, I have been looking for an R package which allowed to do meta-analysis (both pairwise and network/mixed-treatment) at arm-level rather than at trial-level, the latter being the common way in which meta-analysis is done. By arm-level meta-analysis I mean one that accounts for data provided at the level of the individual arms of each trial and that does not simply derive the difference between

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

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

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Hello. A quick question about incorporating variation due to study in the metafor package. I'm working with a particular data set for meta-analysis where some studies have multiple measurements. Others do not. So, let's say the effect I'm looking at is response to two different kinds of drug treatment - let's call their effect sizes T1 and T2. Some studies have multiple

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

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 <-

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

Hi, I would like to do a meta-analysis, i.e., a mixed-effects regression, but I don't seem to get what I want using both the nlme or metafor packages. My question: is there indeed no way to do it? And if so, is there another package I could use? Here are the details: In my meta-analysis I'm comparing different studies that report a measure at time zero and after a certain followup