mmeta

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Multivariate Meta-Analysis

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Overview

About

Maintained by Bingyu ZhangFirst published 2012-07-2615 releasesCRAN page ↗

Multiple 2 by 2 tables often arise in meta-analysis which combines statistical evidence from multiple studies. Two risks within the same study are possibly correlated because they share some common factors such as environment and population structure. This package implements a set of novel Bayesian approaches for multivariate meta analysis when the risks within the same study are independent or correlated. The exact posterior inference of odds ratio, relative risk, and risk difference given either a single 2 by 2 table or multiple 2 by 2 tables is provided. Luo, Chen, Su, Chu, (2014) doi:10.18637/jss.v056.i11, Chen, Luo, (2011) doi:10.1002/sim.4248, Chen, Chu, Luo, Nie, Chen, (2015) doi:10.1177/0962280211430889, Chen, Luo, Chu, Su, Nie, (2014) doi:10.1080/03610926.2012.700379, Chen, Luo, Chu, Wei, (2013) doi:10.1080/19466315.2013.791483.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("mmeta", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-mmeta

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-mmeta

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-mmeta

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

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Slowest check: 1.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

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Examples that run: 36%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 45%

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Dependencies

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3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10.0

Imports (3)

aod ggplot2stats

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testthat

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People (8)

Maintainer (1)

Bingyu Zhang

Maintainer · added in 3.0.2

Authors (4)

Yong Chen

Author · added in 1.02

Haitao Chu

Author · added in 1.02

Sheng Luo

Author · added in 1.02

Xiao Su

Author · added in 1.01

Contributors (3)

Wally Gilks

Contributor · added in 2.4

Giovanni Petris

Contributor · added in 2.4

Luca Tardella

Contributor · added in 2.4

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Sheng Luo Yong Chen <Yong.Chen@uth.tmc.edu>

no longer listed · 1.0

Jiajie Chen

no longer listed · 2.4 to 3.0.1

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Package metadata

First published: 2012-07-26
Total releases: 15 / 14 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10.0
Bundled data: 1.5 KB / 3 files
Download size: 47 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
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