meta (version 4.9-6)

summary.rm5: Cochrane review: Summary of meta-analyses

Description

Calculate and print a summary of all meta-analyses in a Cochrane review.

Usage

# S3 method for rm5
summary(object, comp.no, outcome.no, ...)
# S3 method for summary.rm5
print(x, ...)

Arguments

object

An object of class rm5.

comp.no

Comparison number.

outcome.no

Outcome number.

...

Additional arguments (passed on to metacr).

x

An object of class summary.rm5.

Details

This function can be used to redo all or selected meta-analyses of a Cochrane Review.

Review Manager 5 (RevMan 5) is the current software used for preparing and maintaining Cochrane Reviews (http://community.cochrane.org/tools/review-production-tools/revman-5). In RevMan 5, subgroup analyses can be defined and data from a Cochrane review can be imported to R using the function read.rm5.

The R function metacr is called internally.

References

Higgins, J.P.T and S. Green (2011): Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions Version 5.1.0 [Updated March 2011]. The Cochrane Library: http://www.cochrane-handbook.org

See Also

summary.meta, metacr, read.rm5, metabias.rm5

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# Locate export data file "Fleiss93_CR.csv"
# in sub-directory of package "meta"
#
filename <- system.file("extdata", "Fleiss93_CR.csv", package = "meta")
Fleiss93_CR <- read.rm5(filename)

# Print summary results for all meta-analysis
#
summary(Fleiss93_CR)

# Print summary results only for second outcome of first comparison
#
summary(Fleiss93_CR, comp.no = 1, outcome.no = 2)

# }