meta (version 3.0-1)

metabias: Generic function to test for funnel plot asymmetry

Description

Test for funnel plot asymmetry, based on rank correlation or linear regression method.

Usage

metabias(x, ...)

Arguments

x

An object of class meta or estimated treatment effect in individual studies.

...

Additional arguments.

Details

For more details, see commands metabias.meta and metabias.default.

See Also

metabias.meta, funnel, funnel.meta, metabin

Examples

data(Olkin95)
meta1 <- metabin(event.e, n.e, event.c, n.c,
                 data=Olkin95, subset=1:10,
                 sm="RR", method="I")

##
## Using function metabias.meta:
##
metabias(meta1)

##
## Same result using function metabias.default:
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metabias(meta1$TE, meta1$seTE)