Re: [R] metafor package

2015-12-12 Thread John Peterson
From: John 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

Re: [R] metafor package

2015-12-08 Thread John Peterson
Psychiatry and > Neuropsychology | 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: Monda

Re: [R] metafor package

2015-12-08 Thread Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT)
m: John 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 in the metafor projects website for subgroup i

Re: [R] metafor package

2015-12-08 Thread Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT)
r 07, 2015 22:14 > To: 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,

Re: [R] metafor package

2015-12-07 Thread Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT)
m > -Original Message- > From: 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

[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 weight

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

2014-07-07 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
om: 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 to midlinedecimal Dear R-Community, I need to chan

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

2014-07-07 Thread Michael Dewey
___ 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 to midline

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

2014-07-07 Thread Jeremy Miles
-- > > From: Dietlinde Schmidt [mailto:schmidt.dietli...@web.de] > > Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 10:09 > > To: Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT); r-help@r-project.org > > Subject: Re: [R] metafor package: changing decimal in forest plot to > > midline decimal > > > > Th

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

2014-07-07 Thread Dietlinde Schmidt
om: 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 to midline decimal Dear R-Community, I need

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

2014-07-07 Thread Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT)
olfgang (STAT); r-help@r-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 passe

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

2014-07-05 Thread Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT)
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 and confidence in

[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 th

Re: [R] metafor package

2014-02-13 Thread Nathan Pace
14 at 6:39 AM To: "r-help@R-project.org" , "Nathan Leon Pace, MD, MStat" , Michael Dewey , S Ellison Subject: RE: [R] metafor package >Good advice already from Michael and S Ellison. > >I must apologize for the 'hack-job of a function' called forest() in &

[R] metafor package

2014-02-12 Thread William Shadish
bound and lower than your lowest confidence interval lower bound. The bars may run into the text, but that may be fixed by stretching the output window in R. Will Shadish ** Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:11:20 + From: Nathan Pace To: "r-hel

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

Re: [R] metafor package

2014-02-12 Thread Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT)
+31 (43) 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

Re: [R] metafor package

2014-02-12 Thread S Ellison
roject.org > Subject: [R] 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

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 i

[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 whisk

Re: [R] metafor package: study level variation

2012-09-11 Thread Michael Dewey
Original Message- > > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] > > On Behalf Of Jarrett Byrnes > > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 16:02 > > To: R help > > Subject: [R] metafor package: study level variation > > > >

Re: [R] metafor package: study level variation

2012-09-10 Thread Jarrett Byrnes
:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] > > 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 > > met

Re: [R] metafor package: study level variation

2012-09-10 Thread Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT)
es > 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 &g

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 a

[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 drug

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

2012-08-03 Thread Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT)
1) 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands +31 (43) 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 Jeremy Miles > Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 04:01 > To: Bexkens, Anika > Cc: r

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 wrote: > Dear Metafor users, > > I'd like to test a

[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 continu

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

2012-08-01 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). S

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

2012-07-31 Thread Dushanthi Pinnaduwage
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 01:18 31/07/2012, Dushanthi Pinnaduwage wrote: > > >Thanks very much for the reply Michael. >

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

2012-07-31 Thread Michael Dewey
) 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] "

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

2012-07-31 Thread Dushanthi Pinnaduwage
ried and the error message you got (if any) or told 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 > > > F

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

2012-07-28 Thread Dushanthi Pinnaduwage
ou got (if any) or told 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, proporti

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

2012-07-28 Thread Michael Dewey
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 variable >

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

[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, speci

Re: [R] Metafor package

2010-12-20 Thread Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT)
tricht, 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

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 repor

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 wrote: > Dear Gang, > > It seems that it is poss

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

2010-02-08 Thread Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT)
P.O. Box 616 Room B2.01 (second floor) 6200 MD Maastricht, 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 Sub

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. Orl

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 a

[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 e