Re: [R] metafor package

2015-12-12 Thread John Peterson
n Peterson [mailto:john.peterson@gmail.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2015 14:25 > > To: Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT) > > Cc: R-help@r-project.org > > Subject: Re: [R] metafor package > > > > Hi Dr. Viechtbauer, > > > > The code provided

Re: [R] metafor package

2015-12-08 Thread Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT)
Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT) > Subject: Re: [R] metafor package > > Hi Dr. Viechtbauer, > Thank you very much for your reply. I tried your advice and was able to > make a forest plot with only the estimates for each subgroup.For the > estiamte for each subgroup, similar to the previous m

Re: [R] metafor package

2015-12-08 Thread John Peterson
hology | Maastricht University | P.O. Box 616 (VIJV1) | 6200 MD > Maastricht, The Netherlands | +31 (43) 388-4170 | http://www.wvbauer.com > > > -Original Message- > > From: John Peterson [mailto:john.peterson@gmail.com] > > Sent: Monday, December 07, 2015 22:14 >

Re: [R] metafor package

2015-12-08 Thread Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT)
terson [mailto:john.peterson@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2015 14:25 > To: Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT) > Cc: R-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] metafor package > > Hi Dr. Viechtbauer, > > The code provided in the metafor projects website for subgroup includes &g

Re: [R] metafor package

2015-12-07 Thread Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT)
rom: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of John > Peterson > Sent: Monday, December 07, 2015 01:39 > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] metafor package > > Hi Everyone, > > I am conducting a meta-analysis using the metafor package. I am > inte

[R] metafor package

2015-12-06 Thread John Peterson
Hi Everyone, I am conducting a meta-analysis using the metafor package. I am interested in obtaining an estimate by subgroup only without showing an overall effect. This is directly from the metafor website. How would i modify this code to only show subgroup effects? Further, I want to show

Re: [R] metafor package: changing decimal in forest plot to midline decimal

2014-07-07 Thread Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT)
From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Dietlinde Schmidt [schmidt.dietli...@web.de] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 3:07 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] metafor package: changing decimal in forest plot

Re: [R] metafor package: changing decimal in forest plot to midline decimal

2014-07-07 Thread Dietlinde Schmidt
] On Behalf Of Dietlinde Schmidt [schmidt.dietli...@web.de] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 3:07 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] metafor package: changing decimal in forest plot to midline decimal Dear R-Community, I need to change the punctuation of the reported weights, effect sizes

Re: [R] metafor package: changing decimal in forest plot to midline decimal

2014-07-07 Thread Jeremy Miles
-project.org Subject: Re: [R] metafor package: changing decimal in forest plot to midline decimal Thanks for that link, Wolfgang. Unfortunately, there comes the Warning with it: (process:3634): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text() and decimal being

Re: [R] metafor package: changing decimal in forest plot to midline decimal

2014-07-07 Thread Michael Dewey
-project.org [r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Dietlinde Schmidt [schmidt.dietli...@web.de] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 3:07 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] metafor package: changing decimal in forest plot to midlinedecimal Dear R-Community, I need to change the punctuation

Re: [R] metafor package: changing decimal in forest plot to midline decimal

2014-07-07 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
] On Behalf Of Dietlinde Schmidt [schmidt.dietli...@web.de] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 3:07 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] metafor package: changing decimal in forest plot to midlinedecimal Dear R-Community, I need to change the punctuation of the reported weights, effect sizes

Re: [R] metafor package: changing decimal in forest plot to midline decimal

2014-07-05 Thread Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT)
[schmidt.dietli...@web.de] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 3:07 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] metafor package: changing decimal in forest plot to midline decimal Dear R-Community, I need to change the punctuation of the reported weights, effect sizes and confidence intervals

[R] metafor package: changing decimal in forest plot to midline decimal

2014-07-03 Thread Dietlinde Schmidt
Dear R-Community, I need to change the punctuation of the reported weights, effect sizes and confidence intervals in a forest plot created with the forest()-function in the metafor-package. Midline decimal means that it looks like this (23·6) rather than that (23.6). Do I need to change

Re: [R] metafor package

2014-02-13 Thread Nathan Pace
Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 at 6:39 AM To: r-help@R-project.org r-help@r-project.org, Nathan Leon Pace, MD, MStat n.l.p...@utah.edu, Michael Dewey i...@aghmed.fsnet.co.uk, S Ellison s.elli...@lgcgroup.com Subject: RE: [R] metafor package Good advice already from Michael and S Ellison. I must

Re: [R] metafor package

2014-02-12 Thread Michael Dewey
At 22:11 11/02/2014, Nathan Pace wrote: Hi, I have a random effects meta analysis of a proportion (logit transformation) using rma.glmm. I have created a forest plot of the proportion (inverse logic transformation) using forest.rma. I have added the credibility interval. The forest plot

Re: [R] metafor package

2014-02-12 Thread S Ellison
] metafor package Hi, I have a random effects meta analysis of a proportion (logit transformation) using rma.glmm. I have created a forest plot of the proportion (inverse logic transformation) using forest.rma. I have added the credibility interval. The forest plot is saved as a pdf

Re: [R] metafor package

2014-02-12 Thread Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT)
) 388-4170 | http://www.wvbauer.com -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Michael Dewey Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 12:50 To: Nathan Pace; r-help@R-project.org Subject: Re: [R] metafor package At 22:11 11/02

Re: [R] metafor package

2014-02-12 Thread S Ellison
-Original Message- I must apologize for the 'hack-job of a function' called forest() in metafor. Well, certainly no apology needed there! I realized a while ago that people would prefer more fine-grained control over the various elements of the plot (this has come up a few times

[R] metafor package

2014-02-12 Thread William Shadish
-project.org Subject: [R] metafor package Message-ID: cf1fef68.2490a%n.l.p...@utah.edu Content-Type: text/plain Hi, I have a random effects meta analysis of a proportion (logit transformation) using rma.glmm. I have created a forest plot of the proportion (inverse logic transformation) using

[R] metafor package

2014-02-11 Thread Nathan Pace
Hi, I have a random effects meta analysis of a proportion (logit transformation) using rma.glmm. I have created a forest plot of the proportion (inverse logic transformation) using forest.rma. I have added the credibility interval. The forest plot is saved as a pdf. The dotted line and

Re: [R] metafor package: study level variation

2012-09-11 Thread Michael Dewey
] On Behalf Of Jarrett Byrnes Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 16:02 To: R help Subject: [R] metafor package: study level variation 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

Re: [R] metafor package: study level variation

2012-09-10 Thread Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT)
: Friday, September 07, 2012 16:02 To: R help Subject: [R] metafor package: study level variation 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

Re: [R] metafor package: study level variation

2012-09-10 Thread Jarrett Byrnes
help Subject: [R] metafor package: study level variation 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

Re: [R] metafor package: study level variation

2012-09-08 Thread Michael Dewey
At 15:02 07/09/2012, Jarrett Byrnes wrote: 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

[R] metafor package: study level variation

2012-09-07 Thread Jarrett Byrnes
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

Re: [R] Metafor package: Including multiple (categorical) predictors

2012-08-03 Thread Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT)
-Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy Miles Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 04:01 To: Bexkens, Anika Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Metafor package: Including multiple (categorical) predictors The test

[R] Metafor package: Including multiple (categorical) predictors

2012-08-02 Thread Bexkens, Anika
Dear Metafor users, I'd like to test a model with 2 continuous and 2 categorical moderators in a meta regression. One categorical parameter has 2 levels and the other has 4 levels. If I understand correctly, when I include all moderators in the model, Metafor returns main effects of the

Re: [R] Metafor package: Including multiple (categorical) predictors

2012-08-02 Thread Jeremy Miles
The test of moderator coefficients (QM) is chi-square distributed.You can use the change in this value when you add a predictor to the model as a chi-square test, with df equal to the change in df. Jeremy On 2 August 2012 05:54, Bexkens, Anika a.bexk...@uva.nl wrote: Dear Metafor users, I'd

Re: [R] metafor package, proportions: single groups wrt to a categorical dependent variable

2012-08-01 Thread Dushanthi Pinnaduwage
-project.org From: i...@aghmed.fsnet.co.uk Subject: RE: [R] metafor package, proportions: single groups wrt to a categorical dependent variable At 01:18 31/07/2012, Dushanthi Pinnaduwage wrote: Thanks very much for the reply Michael. I guess I have to combine some levels to make

Re: [R] metafor package, proportions: single groups wrt to a categorical dependent variable‏

2012-08-01 Thread Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT)
Dear Dushanthi, Please keep your e-mails on the R-Help list, where Michael has already given you some excellent advice. As Michael already explained, metafor can handle proportions, but does not have any specific functionality for categorical variables with more than 2 levels (at the moment).

Re: [R] metafor package, proportions: single groups wrt to a categorical dependent variable‏

2012-08-01 Thread Dushanthi Pinnaduwage
Thanks very much for your response. Sorry for writing to you directly. Hereafter, I'll email to the R-Help list. I agree with all your comments and suggestions. My analysis will be descriptive type; purely observational as the studies are non-randomized studies. I have sample sizes and counts

Re: [R] metafor package, proportions: single groups wrt to a categorical dependent variable

2012-07-31 Thread Dushanthi Pinnaduwage
Thanks very much for the reply Michael.I guess I have to combine some levels to make categorical variable to a binary variable. Dushanthi Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 16:38:24 +0100 To: dushan...@bell.net; r-help@r-project.org From: i...@aghmed.fsnet.co.uk Subject: RE: [R] metafor package

Re: [R] metafor package, proportions: single groups wrt to a categorical dependent variable

2012-07-31 Thread Michael Dewey
or not) it is a bit hard to offer more advice. I would regard collapsing categories as a last resort myself as you lose information. Dushanthi Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 16:38:24 +0100 To: dushan...@bell.net; r-help@r-project.org From: i...@aghmed.fsnet.co.uk Subject: RE: [R] metafor package

Re: [R] metafor package, proportions: single groups wrt to a categorical dependent variable

2012-07-28 Thread Michael Dewey
At 01:44 28/07/2012, Dushanthi Pinnaduwage wrote: Dear all, I am using R version 2.15.0 and 'metafor' package version 1.6-0. Can this version of the package handle proportions from a categorical dependent variable for single studies?If so how do I set up my dataframe for the raw data from

Re: [R] metafor package, proportions: single groups wrt to a categorical dependent variable

2012-07-28 Thread Michael Dewey
you expected. Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 14:25:08 +0100 To: dushan...@bell.net; r-help@r-project.org From: i...@aghmed.fsnet.co.uk Subject: Re: [R] metafor package, proportions: single groups wrt to a categorical dependent variable At 01:44 28/07/2012, Dushanthi Pinnaduwage wrote: Dear

Re: [R] metafor package, proportions: single groups wrt to a categorical dependent variable

2012-07-28 Thread Dushanthi Pinnaduwage
us the discrepancy between the output you obtained and that which you expected. Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 14:25:08 +0100 To: dushan...@bell.net; r-help@r-project.org From: i...@aghmed.fsnet.co.uk Subject: Re: [R] metafor package, proportions: single groups wrt to a categorical dependent

[R] metafor package, proportions: single groups wrt to a categorical dependent variable

2012-07-27 Thread Dushanthi Pinnaduwage
Dear all, I am using R version 2.15.0 and 'metafor' package version 1.6-0. Can this version of the package handle proportions from a categorical dependent variable for single studies?If so how do I set up my dataframe for the raw data from different studies? Also how do I give inputs,

[R] Metafor package

2010-12-20 Thread petretta
I have some question about metafor package. I'm interest to perform a random effect meta-analysis of proportion (single group summary of prevalence of disease in a population as reported by different study) It ask: 1. PFT: The Freeman-Tukey double arcsine transformed proportion is

Re: [R] Metafor package

2010-12-20 Thread Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT)
, The Netherlands Tel: +31 (43) 368-5248 Fax: +31 (43) 368-8689 Web: http://www.wvbauer.com Original Message From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of petre...@unina.it Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 13:26 To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Metafor package

Re: [R] metafor package: effect sizes are not fully independent

2010-02-08 Thread Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT)
, The Netherlands Debyeplein 1 (Randwyck) Original Message From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Gang Chen Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 23:08 To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] metafor package: effect sizes are not fully independent

Re: [R] metafor package: effect sizes are not fully independent

2010-02-08 Thread Gang Chen
Thanks for the confirmation and pointer, Mike! Dr. Viechtbauer, I'm looking forward to the new functionality of specifying covariance structures in metafor(). Thanks both again for the great help, Gang On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Mike Cheung mikewlche...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Gang, It

Re: [R] metafor package: effect sizes are not fully independent

2010-02-07 Thread Mike Cheung
Dear Gang, Here are just some general thoughts. Wolfgang Viechtbauer will be a better position to answer questions related to metafor. For multivariate effect sizes, we first have to estimate the asymptotic sampling covariance matrix among the effect sizes. Formulas for some common effect sizes

Re: [R] metafor package: effect sizes are not fully independent

2010-02-07 Thread Mike Cheung
Dear Gang, It seems that it is possible to use a univariate meta-analysis to handle your multivariate effect sizes. If you want to calculate a weighted average first, Hedges and Olkin (1985) has discussed this approach. Hedges, L. V., Olkin, I. (1985). Statistical methods for meta-analysis.

[R] metafor package: effect sizes are not fully independent

2010-02-05 Thread Gang Chen
In a classical meta analysis model y_i = X_i * beta_i + e_i, data {y_i} are assumed to be independent effect sizes. However, I'm encountering the following two scenarios: (1) Each source has multiple effect sizes, thus {y_i} are not fully independent with each other. (2) Each source has multiple