metap (version 0.7)

metap-package: Meta-analysis of p-values

Description

Combine $p$-values using a variety of methods

Details

Package:

metap

Type:

Package

Version:

0.7

Date:

2016-04-05

License:

GPL-2

LazyLoad:

yes

Provides a number of ways in which significance levels may be combined in a meta-analysis. It includes a number of datasets taken from the literature. It also provdes a display and an informal graphical test due to Schweder and Spjotvol and the lowest slope line of Benjamini and Hochberg.

There is a vignette. Some further documentation and, possibly, a development version may be seen at http://www.dewey.myzen.co.uk/meta/meta.html.

References

Becker, B J. Combining significance levels. In Cooper, H and Hedges, L V, editors A handbook of research synthesis, chapter 15, pages 215--230. Russell Sage, New York, 1994.

Benjamini, Y and Hochberg, Y. On the adaptive control of the false disovery rate in multiple testing with independent statistics. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 25: 60--83, 2000.

Rosenthal, R. Combining the results of independent studies. Psychological Bulletin, 85:185--193, 1978.

Schweder, T and Spjotvoll, E. Plots of $P$--values to evaluate many tests simultaneously. Biometrika, 69:493--502, 1982.

See Also

The issue of meta-analysis of signficance levels is not completely unconnected with the topic of adjustment for multiple comparisons as in for example p.adjust