metagear-package

<pkg>metagear</pkg> is a comprehensive, multifunctional toolbox with capabilities
aimed to cover much of the research synthesis taxonomy: from applying a
systematic review approach to objectively assemble and screen the literature,
to extracting data from studies, and to finally summarize and analyse these data
with the statistics of meta-analysis.  The complete list of functions can be
viewed with <code>library(help = metagear)</code>.  More information about
<pkg>metagear</pkg> can be found at <url>http://lajeunesse.myweb.usf.edu</url> .

Functionalities for facilitating systematic reviews, data extractions, and meta-analyses.  It includes a GUI (graphical user interface) to help screen the abstracts and titles of bibliographic data; tools to assign screening effort across multiple collaborators/reviewers and to assess inter-reviewer reliability; tools to help automate the download and retrieval of journal PDF articles from online databases; automated data extractions from scatter-plots; PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) flow diagrams; simple imputation tools to fill gaps in incomplete or missing study parameters; generation of random effects sizes for Hedges' d, log response ratio, odds ratio, and correlation coefficients for Monte Carlo experiments; covariance equations for modelling dependencies among multiple effect sizes (e.g., effect sizes with a common control); and finally summaries that replicate analyses and outputs from widely used but no longer updated meta-analysis software.  Funding for this package was supported by National Science Foundation (NSF) grants DBI-1262545 and DEB-1451031.

metagear-package: Research synthesis tools to facilitate systematic reviews, data extraction, and meta-analysis.

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