metaLik (version 0.43.0)

summary.metaLik: Summarizing meta-analysis and meta-regression model fits

Description

Summary method for class "metaLik".

Usage

# S3 method for metaLik
summary(object, ...)

Arguments

object

an object of class "metaLik", usually a result of a call to "metaLik".

...

additional arguments

Value

The function summary.metaLik returns the metaLik object from which summary.metaLik is called.

Details

summary.metaLik prints summary information about within-study heterogeneity, parameter estimates, standard errors, first- and higher-order log-likelihood ratio statistics. See test.metaLik for more details about the first- and higher-order statistics.

See Also

The generic functions coefficients, confint and vcov.

Function test.metaLik allows for hypothesis testing.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
## meta-analysis
data(education)
m <- metaLik(y~1, data=education, sigma2=sigma2)
summary(m)
## meta-analysis
data(albumin)
m <- metaLik(y~1, data=albumin, sigma2=sigma2)
summary(m)
## meta-regression  
data(vaccine)
m <- metaLik(y~latitude, data=vaccine, sigma2=sigma2)
summary(m)
## meta-regression
data(cholesterol)
m <- metaLik(heart_disease~chol_reduction, data=cholesterol, weights=1/sigma2)
summary(m)
# }