meta: General Package for Meta-Analysis
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.
| Version: |
8.2-1 |
| Depends: |
R (≥ 4.0.0), metadat |
| Imports: |
metafor (≥ 3.0-0), grid, ggplot2, lme4, CompQuadForm, xml2, methods, readr, dplyr, magrittr, purrr, stringr, tibble, scales |
| Suggests: |
netmeta, BiasedUrn, pimeta, estmeansd, robvis, brglm2, writexl, rmarkdown, knitr, ggpubr, gridExtra |
| Published: |
2025-09-01 |
| DOI: |
10.32614/CRAN.package.meta |
| Author: |
Guido Schwarzer 
[cre, aut] |
| Maintainer: |
Guido Schwarzer <guido.schwarzer at uniklinik-freiburg.de> |
| License: |
GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)] |
| Copyright: |
see file COPYRIGHTS |
| URL: |
https://github.com/guido-s/meta/
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-21416-0 |
| NeedsCompilation: |
no |
| Citation: |
meta citation info |
| Materials: |
NEWS |
| In views: |
ClinicalTrials, MetaAnalysis |
| CRAN checks: |
meta results |
Documentation:
Downloads:
Reverse dependencies:
| Reverse depends: |
crossnma, diagmeta, metarep, metasens, miniMeta, mtrank, MultiPhen, netmeta, nmarank |
| Reverse imports: |
AID, EvidenceSynthesis, fragility, gemtc, metabolic, metagroup, metainc, metamicrobiomeR, metasplines, metaumbrella, netdose, NMAforest, NMAoutlier, R4HCR, ssifs |
| Reverse suggests: |
forplo, gap, metaConvert, metadat, mvmeta, RcmdrPlugin.EZR, RCPA, TFEA.ChIP |
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