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meta (version 8.3-0)

General Package for Meta-Analysis

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User-friendly general package providing standard methods for meta-analysis and supporting Schwarzer, Carpenter, and Rücker , "Meta-Analysis with R" (2015): - common effect and random effects meta-analysis; - several plots (forest, funnel, Galbraith / radial, L'Abbe, Baujat, bubble); - three-level meta-analysis model; - generalised linear mixed model; - logistic regression with penalised likelihood for rare events; - Hartung-Knapp method for random effects model; - Kenward-Roger method for random effects model; - prediction interval and density of the prediction distribution; - expected proportion of comparable studies with clinically important benefit or harm; - statistical tests for funnel plot asymmetry; - trim-and-fill method to evaluate bias in meta-analysis; - meta-regression; - cumulative meta-analysis and leave-one-out meta-analysis; - import data from 'RevMan 5'; - produce forest plot summarising several (subgroup) meta-analyses.

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install.packages('meta')

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8.3-0

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GPL (>= 2)

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Guido Schwarzer

Last Published

April 2nd, 2026

Functions in meta (8.3-0)

forest.metabind

Forest plot to display the result of a meta-analysis
cidprop.meta

Calculate expected proportion of comparable studies with clinically important benefit or harm
cisapride

Cisapride in Non-Ulcer Dispepsia
ci

Calculation of confidence intervals (based on normal approximation or t-distribution)
estimates.meta

Extract results from meta-analysis object
drapery

Drapery plot
caffeine

Caffeine for daytime drowsiness
bubble.metareg

Bubble plot to display the result of a meta-regression
forest.meta

Forest plot to display the result of a meta-analysis
forest.metacum

Forest plot to display the result of a cumulative meta-analysis
forest.metainf

Forest plot to display the result of a leave-one-out meta-analysis
labels.meta

Create study labels for forest plot
gs

Get default for a meta-analysis setting.
meta-transf

Auxiliary functions for (back) transformations
meta-sm

Description of summary measures available in R package meta
funnel.meta

Funnel plot
labbe.metabin

L'Abbé plot for meta-analysis with binary outcomes
longarm

Transform data from pairwise comparisons to long arm-based format
meta-package

meta: Brief overview of methods and general hints
meta-object

Description of R object of class "meta"