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MetaUtility

Utility Functions for Conducting and Interpreting Meta-Analyses

v2.1.2 · Oct 30, 2021 · GPL-2

Description

Contains functions to estimate the proportion of effects stronger than a threshold of scientific importance (function prop_stronger), to nonparametrically characterize the distribution of effects in a meta-analysis (calib_ests, pct_pval), to make effect size conversions (r_to_d, r_to_z, z_to_r, d_to_logRR), to compute and format inference in a meta-analysis (format_CI, format_stat, tau_CI), to scrape results from existing meta-analyses for re-analysis (scrape_meta, parse_CI_string, ci_to_var).

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                      email = "mmathur@stanford.edu"),
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                      family = "Wang",
                      role = "aut"),
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                      family = "VanderWeele",
                      role = "aut"))
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  Authors@R: c(person(given = c("Maya", "B."),
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                      family = "Wang",
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                      family = "VanderWeele",
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  Authors@R: c(person(given = c("Maya", "B."),
                      family = "Mathur",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
  
...[truncated]...
        person(given = "Rui",
                      family = "Wang",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = c("Tyler", "J."),
                      family = "VanderWeele",
                      role = "aut"))
as necessary.
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Dependencies Reverse dependencies metafor metadat stringr purrr dplyr tidyr rlang EValue metaConvert MetaUtility

Version History

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new 2.1.2 Mar 10, 2026
updated 2.1.2 ← 2.1.1 diff Oct 29, 2021
updated 2.1.1 ← 2.1.0 diff Mar 15, 2021
updated 2.1.0 ← 2.0.1 diff Nov 27, 2019
updated 2.0.1 ← 2.0.0 diff Oct 11, 2019
updated 2.0.0 ← 1.2.0 diff Oct 6, 2019
updated 1.2.0 ← 1.1.0 diff Apr 9, 2019
updated 1.1.0 ← 1.0.0 diff Mar 23, 2019
new 1.0.0 Feb 25, 2019