MetaAnalyser: The Meta-Analyser

Description Usage Arguments Details Value References Examples

Description

An interactive application to visualise meta-analysis data as a physical weighing machine

Usage

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MetaAnalyser(dat, rstudio = FALSE)

MetaAnalyzer(dat, rstudio = FALSE)

Arguments

dat

Meta-analysis data. This should be a data frame with three columns, called "name", "est" and "se" giving the study name, study-specific parameter estimates and corresponding standard errors respectively.

Numeric or character study names are permitted. If the data frame has more than three columns, the first three are used. If the first three columns are called "name", "est" and "se" in some order, they are re-ordered appropriately, otherwise they are re-named.

rstudio

The default of FALSE opens the app in the system default web browser. If running RStudio and rstudio=TRUE, the app is opened in the RStudio built-in viewer.

Details

Opens a web browser with the interactive application.

If dat is omitted, the default magnesium dataset is used.

MetaAnalyzer is an alias for MetaAnalyser.

Value

None

References

J. Bowden and C. Jackson "Weighing evidence with the Meta-Analyser" The American Statistician (2016) Available online, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2016.1165735

Examples

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## Not run: MetaAnalyser(magnesium)

MetaAnalyser documentation built on May 1, 2019, 10:11 p.m.