metafor: Meta-Analysis Package for R

A comprehensive collection of functions for conducting meta-analyses in R. The package includes functions to calculate various effect sizes or outcome measures, fit fixed-, random-, and mixed-effects models to such data, carry out moderator and meta-regression analyses, and create various types of meta-analytical plots (e.g., forest, funnel, radial, L'Abbe, Baujat plots). For meta-analyses of binomial and person-time data, the package also provides functions that implement specialized methods, including the Mantel-Haenszel method, Peto's method, and a variety of suitable generalized linear (mixed-effects) models (i.e., mixed-effects logistic and Poisson regression models). Finally, the package provides functionality for fitting meta-analytic multivariate/multilevel models that account for non-independent sampling errors and/or true effects (e.g., due to the inclusion of multiple treatment studies, multiple endpoints, or other forms of clustering). Network meta-analyses and meta-analyses accounting for known correlation structures (e.g., due to phylogenetic relatedness) can also be conducted.

Version: 1.9-8
Depends: R (≥ 3.2.2), Matrix
Imports: stats, utils, graphics, grDevices, methods
Suggests: lme4, numDeriv, minqa, nloptr, dfoptim, ucminf, CompQuadForm, mvtnorm, Formula, R.rsp, testthat, BiasedUrn, survival, Epi, igraph, multcomp, plyr
Published: 2015-09-28
Author: Wolfgang Viechtbauer [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Wolfgang Viechtbauer <wvb at metafor-project.org>
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
URL: http://www.metafor-project.org http://www.wvbauer.com
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: metafor citation info
Materials: README NEWS
In views: ClinicalTrials, MetaAnalysis, Phylogenetics
CRAN checks: metafor results

Downloads:

Reference manual: metafor.pdf
Vignettes: Conducting Meta-Analyses in R with the metafor Package
Diagram of Functions in the metafor Package
Package source: metafor_1.9-8.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: metafor_1.9-8.zip, r-release: metafor_1.9-8.zip, r-oldrel: metafor_1.9-7.zip
OS X Snow Leopard binaries: r-release: metafor_1.9-8.tgz, r-oldrel: metafor_1.9-6.tgz
OS X Mavericks binaries: r-release: metafor_1.9-8.tgz
Old sources: metafor archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse depends: MCPerm, SAMURAI
Reverse imports: MAVIS, metagear, metagen, metaplus, NSM3, RcmdrPlugin.MA, reproducer, xmeta
Reverse suggests: bayesmeta, forestmodel, MAc, MAd, meta, metaSEM, mvmeta