# General Package for Meta-Analysis

## Documentation for package ‘meta’ version 6.5-0

- DESCRIPTION file.
- Package NEWS.

## Help Pages

meta-package | meta: Brief overview of methods and general hints
amlodipine | Amlodipine for Work Capacity
as.data.frame.meta | Additional functions for objects of class meta
baujat | Baujat plot to explore heterogeneity in meta-analysis
baujat.meta | Baujat plot to explore heterogeneity in meta-analysis
bubble | Bubble plot to display the result of a meta-regression
bubble.metareg | Bubble plot to display the result of a meta-regression
ci | Calculation of confidence intervals (based on normal approximation or t-distribution)
cilayout | Print meta-analysis results
cisapride | Cisapride in Non-Ulcer Dispepsia
drapery | Drapery plot
Fleiss1993bin | Aspirin after Myocardial Infarction
Fleiss1993cont | Mental Health Treatment
Fleiss1993_CR | Import RevMan 5 analysis data
Fleiss93 | Aspirin after Myocardial Infarction
Fleiss93cont | Mental Health Treatment
forest | Forest plot to display the result of a meta-analysis
forest.meta | Forest plot to display the result of a meta-analysis
forest.metabind | Forest plot to display the result of a meta-analysis
funnel | Funnel plot
funnel.meta | Funnel plot
gs | Get default for a meta-analysis setting.
JAMAlabels | Create study labels in JAMA layout (deprecated function)
labbe | L'Abbé plot for meta-analysis with binary outcomes
labbe.default | L'Abbé plot for meta-analysis with binary outcomes
labbe.metabin | L'Abbé plot for meta-analysis with binary outcomes
labels.meta | Create study labels for forest plot
longarm | Transform data from pairwise comparisons to long arm-based format
lungcancer | Smoking example
meta | meta: Brief overview of methods and general hints
meta-object | Description of R object of class "meta"
meta-sm | Description of summary measures available in R package *meta*
metaadd | Add pooled results from external analysis to meta-analysis
metabias | Test for funnel plot asymmetry
metabias.default | Test for funnel plot asymmetry
metabias.meta | Test for funnel plot asymmetry
metabias.rm5 | Cochrane review: Test for funnel plot asymmetry
metabin | Meta-analysis of binary outcome data
metabind | Combine and summarize meta-analysis objects
metacont | Meta-analysis of continuous outcome data
metacor | Meta-analysis of correlations
metacr | Meta-analysis of outcome data from Cochrane review
metacum | Cumulative meta-analysis
metacum.default | Cumulative meta-analysis
metacum.meta | Cumulative meta-analysis
metagen | Generic inverse variance meta-analysis
metainc | Meta-analysis of incidence rates
metainf | Influence analysis in meta-analysis using leave-one-out method
metainf.default | Influence analysis in meta-analysis using leave-one-out method
metainf.meta | Influence analysis in meta-analysis using leave-one-out method
metamean | Meta-analysis of single means
metamerge | Merge results of two meta-analyses on the same data set
metaprop | Meta-analysis of single proportions
metarate | Meta-analysis of single incidence rates
metareg | Meta-regression
metareg.default | Meta-regression
metareg.meta | Meta-regression
nnt | Calculate the number needed to treat (NNT)
nnt.default | Calculate the number needed to treat (NNT)
nnt.meta | Calculate the number needed to treat (NNT)
Olkin1995 | Thrombolytic Therapy after Acute Myocardial Infarction
Olkin95 | Thrombolytic Therapy after Acute Myocardial Infarction
or2smd | Conversion from log odds ratio to standardised mean difference
Pagliaro1992 | Meta-analysis on Prevention of First Bleeding in Cirrhosis
print.meta | Print meta-analysis results
print.metabias | Test for funnel plot asymmetry
print.nnt.meta | Calculate the number needed to treat (NNT)
print.rm5 | Cochrane review: summary of meta-analyses
print.summary.meta | Print detailed meta-analysis results
print.summary.rm5 | Cochrane review: detailed summary of meta-analyses
print.trimfill.rm5 | Cochrane review: trim-and-fill method
radial | Radial plot
radial.default | Radial plot
radial.meta | Radial plot
read.mtv | Import RevMan 4 data files (.mtv)
read.rm5 | Import RevMan 5 analysis data
settings.meta | Print and change default settings to conduct and print or plot meta-analyses in R package *meta*.
smd2or | Conversion from standardised mean difference to log odds ratio
smoking | Smoking example
subset.longarm | Return subset of longarm object
summary.meta | Summary of meta-analysis results
summary.rm5 | Cochrane review: detailed summary of meta-analyses
trimfill | Trim-and-fill method to adjust for bias in meta-analysis
trimfill.default | Trim-and-fill method to adjust for bias in meta-analysis
trimfill.meta | Trim-and-fill method to adjust for bias in meta-analysis
trimfill.rm5 | Cochrane review: trim-and-fill method
update.meta | Update a meta-analysis object
weights.meta | Calculate absolute and percentage weights for meta-analysis
woodyplants | Elevated CO_2 and total biomass of woody plants