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 arms and do the meta-analysis on that.
I am not sure metafor can do that, but hopefully someone more experienced on it can clarify that to me. I can see that it can take data in both forms, arm and trial level, but it looks as if the arm-level information would be converted into trial one through escalc and the latter then used for the meta-analysis. Is that right? Many thanks. Angelo -- NIHR Research Methods Training Fellow, Department of Community Based Medicine University of Bristol 25 Belgrave Road Bristol BS8 2AA Tel. 0779 265-6552 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.