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metafor (version 2.4-0)

forest: Forest Plots

Description

The function forest is generic. It can be used to create forest plots.

Usage

forest(x, …)

Arguments

x

either an object of class "rma", a vector with the observed effect size or outcomes, or an object of class "cumul.rma". See ‘Details’.

…

other arguments.

Details

Currently, methods exist for three types of situations.

In the first case, object x is a fitted model object coming from the rma.uni, rma.mh, or rma.peto functions. The corresponding method is then forest.rma.

Alternatively, object x can be a vector with observed effect size or outcomes. The corresponding method is then forest.default.

Finally, object x could be an object coming from the cumul.rma.uni, cumul.rma.mh, or cumul.rma.peto functions. The corresponding method is then forest.cumul.rma.

References

Lewis, S., & Clarke, M. (2001). Forest plots: Trying to see the wood and the trees. British Medical Journal, 322, 1479--1480.

Viechtbauer, W. (2010). Conducting meta-analyses in R with the metafor package. Journal of Statistical Software, 36(3), 1--48. https://www.jstatsoft.org/v036/i03.

See Also

forest.rma, forest.default, forest.cumul.rma