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CoTiMA

Continuous Time Meta-Analysis ('CoTiMA')

v1.0.2 · Aug 22, 2025 · GPL-3

Description

The 'CoTiMA' package performs meta-analyses of correlation matrices of repeatedly measured variables taken from studies that used different time intervals. Different time intervals between measurement occasions impose problems for meta-analyses because the effects (e.g. cross-lagged effects) cannot be simply aggregated, for example, by means of common fixed or random effects analysis. However, continuous time math, which is applied in 'CoTiMA', can be used to extrapolate or intrapolate the results from all studies to any desired time lag. By this, effects obtained in studies that used different time intervals can be meta-analyzed. 'CoTiMA' fits models to empirical data using the structural equation model (SEM) package 'ctsem', the effects specified in a SEM are related to parameters that are not directly included in the model (i.e., continuous time parameters; together, they represent the continuous time structural equation model, CTSEM). Statistical model comparisons and significance tests are then performed on the continuous time parameter estimates. 'CoTiMA' also allows analysis of publication bias (Egger's test, PET-PEESE estimates, zcurve analysis etc.) and analysis of statistical power (post hoc power, required sample sizes). See Dormann, C., Guthier, C., & Cortina, J. M. (2019) <doi:10.1177/1094428119847277>. and Guthier, C., Dormann, C., & Voelkle, M. C. (2020) <doi:10.1037/bul0000304>.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies OpenMx ctsem lavaan foreach Matrix MBESS crayon psych doParallel rootSolve abind RPushbullet openxlsx zcurve scholar +2 more dependencies CoTiMA

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new 1.0.2 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.0.2 ← 0.8.0 diff Aug 21, 2025
updated 0.8.0 ← 0.7.0 diff Apr 24, 2024
updated 0.7.0 ← 0.6.2 diff Dec 15, 2023
updated 0.6.2 ← 0.5.4 diff Nov 7, 2022
updated 0.5.4 ← 0.5.2 diff Jan 19, 2022
updated 0.5.2 ← 0.4.4 diff Dec 8, 2021
updated 0.4.4 ← 0.4.3 diff Oct 11, 2021
updated 0.4.3 ← 0.4.0 diff Sep 2, 2021
updated 0.4.0 ← 0.3.9 diff May 19, 2021
updated 0.3.9 ← 0.3.6 diff Apr 18, 2021
new 0.3.6 Mar 10, 2021