Re: [R] questions about "metafor" package

2011-08-22 Thread Mike Cheung
Hi, Emilie. For your second question. You may check Gleser and Olkin (2009). They gave several formulas to estimate the sampling covariance for dependent effect sizes. One of them can be applied in your case. Gleser, L. J., & Olkin, I. (2009). Stochastically dependent effect sizes. In H. Cooper,

Re: [R] questions about "metafor" package

2011-08-20 Thread Michael Dewey
At 16:21 17/08/2011, Emilie MAILLARD wrote: Hello,  I would like to do a meta-analysis with the package « metafor ». Ideally I would like to use a mixed model because I’m interested to see the effect of some moderators. But the data set I managed to collect from literature presents two

Re: [R] questions about "metafor" package

2011-08-17 Thread Jeremy Miles
. > > - Firstly, for each observation, I have means for a treatment and for > a control, but I don’t always have corresponding standard deviations (52 of a > total of 93 observations don’t have standard deviations). Nevertheless I have > the sample sizes for all observations so I wonder

Re: [R] questions about "metafor" package

2011-08-17 Thread Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT)
Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] > On Behalf Of Emilie MAILLARD > Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 17:21 > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] questions about "metafor" package > > Hello, > > I would like

[R] questions about "metafor" package

2011-08-17 Thread Emilie MAILLARD
Hello,   I would like to do a meta-analysis with the package « metafor ». Ideally I would like to use a mixed model because I’m interested to see the effect of some moderators. But the data set I managed to collect from literature presents two limits.   -         Firstly, for ea