metafor (version 1.4-0)

trimfill: Trim and Fill Method

Description

The function trimfill is generic. It can be used to apply the trim and fill method proposed by Duval and Tweedie (2000a, 2000b; see also Duval, 2005) to specific classes of objects.

Usage

trimfill(x, ...)

Arguments

x

an object of class "rma.uni".

...

other arguments.

Details

Currently, there is only a method for objects of class "rma.uni" created by the rma.uni function. Accordingly, the corresponding method is called trimfill.rma.uni. See the documentation for that function for more details.

References

Duval, S. J. & Tweedie, R. L. (2000a). Trim and fill: A simple funnel-plot-based method of testing and adjusting for publication bias in meta-analysis. Biometrics, 56, 455--463. Duval, S. J. & Tweedie, R. L. (2000b). A nonparametric "trim and fill" method of accounting for publication bias in meta-analysis. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 95, 89--98. Duval, S. J. (2005). The trim and fill method. In H. R. Rothstein, A. J. Sutton & M. Borenstein (Eds.) (2005) Publication bias in meta-analysis: Prevention, assessment, and adjustments (pp. 127--144). Chichester, England: Wiley. Viechtbauer, W. (2010). Conducting meta-analyses in R with the metafor package. Journal of Statistical Software, 36(3), 1--48. http://www.jstatsoft.org/v36/i03/.

See Also

trimfill.rma.uni