meta (version 3.8-0)

print.rm5: Print and summary methods for objects of class rm5

Description

Print and summary methods for objects of class rm5.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'rm5':
print(x, ...)
## S3 method for class 'summary.rm5':
print(x, ...)
## S3 method for class 'rm5':
summary(object, comp.no, outcome.no, ...)
## S3 method for class 'rm5':
metabias(x, comp.no, outcome.no,
                       method.bias="linreg",
                       method.bias.binary=method.bias,
                       method.bias.or="score",
                       k.min=10, ...)

Arguments

x

An object of class rm5.

object

An object of class rm5.

comp.no

Comparison number.

outcome.no

Outcome number.

method.bias

A character string indicating which test for small-study effects is to be used for all outcomes. Either "rank", "linreg", or "mm", can be abbreviated. See function m

method.bias.binary

A character string indicating which test is to be used for binary outcomes. Either "rank", "linreg", "mm", "count", "score", or "peters", can be abbreviated. See fun

method.bias.or

A character string indicating which test is to be used for binary outcomes with odds ratio as summary measure. Either "rank", "linreg", "mm", "count", "score", or "peters"<

k.min

Minimum number of studies to perform test for small-study effects.

...

Additional arguments (ignored at the moment)

Details

Review Manager 5 (RevMan 5) is the current software used for preparing and maintaining Cochrane Reviews (http://www.cc-ims.net/revman/). 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 summary.rm5 can be used to redo all meta-analyses of the imported Cochrane Review.

The R function metabias.rm5 can be used to conduct a test for funnel plot asymmetry for all meta-analyses of the imported Cochrane Review.

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

metabias.meta, summary.meta, read.rm5

Examples

# Locate export data file "Fleiss93_CR.csv"
# in sub-directory of package "meta"
#
filename <- system.file("data/Fleiss93_CR.csv.gz", package = "meta")
#
Fleiss93_CR <- read.rm5(filename)

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

#
# Print results for tests of small-study effects:
#
metabias(Fleiss93_CR, k.min=5)