Package: meta
Title: General Package for Meta-Analysis
Version: 4.5-0
Depends: R (>= 2.9.1)
Imports: grid
Suggests: metafor, lme4, numDeriv, BiasedUrn
Authors@R: c(person("Guido","Schwarzer", role=c("cre","aut"), email="sc@imbi.uni-freiburg.de"))
Date: 2016-08-17
Description: User-friendly general package providing standard methods for meta-analysis and supporting Schwarzer, Carpenter, and Rücker, "Meta-Analysis with R" (2015):
 - fixed effect and random effects meta-analysis;
 - several plots (forest, funnel, Galbraith / radial, L'Abbe, Baujat, bubble);
 - statistical tests and trim-and-fill method to evaluate bias in meta-analysis;
 - import data from 'RevMan 5';
 - prediction interval, Hartung-Knapp and Paule-Mandel method for random effects model;
 - cumulative meta-analysis and leave-one-out meta-analysis;
 - meta-regression (if R package 'metafor' is installed);
 - generalised linear mixed models (if R packages 'metafor', 'lme4', 'numDeriv', and 'BiasedUrn' are installed).
License: GPL (>= 2)
Encoding: UTF-8
NeedsCompilation: yes
Packaged: 2016-08-17 08:13:14 UTC; sc
Author: Guido Schwarzer [cre, aut]
Maintainer: Guido Schwarzer <sc@imbi.uni-freiburg.de>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2016-08-17 10:59:59
