Re: [R] [R-sig-ME] Duplicating meta-regression results from PROC MIXED with lmer

2009-05-06 Thread Brant Inman
Rolf, I actually don't believe that this is a SAS vs R issue since I have 3 sources that report the same results. I know that STATA, SAS and the mima function from R can all be used to give the correct results. The question is related more to how I can get similar results with lmer. Cu

Re: [R] [R-sig-ME] Duplicating meta-regression results from PROC MIXED with lmer

2009-05-05 Thread Rolf Turner
On 6/05/2009, at 3:00 PM, Brant Inman wrote: R-experts: In 2002, Hans Van Houwelingen et al. published a tutorial on how to do meta-regression in Statistics in Medicine. They used the classic BCG dataset of Colditz to demonstrate correct methodology and computed the results using PROC MIXED i