wviechtb/meta_analysis_books

R code for meta-analysis books

Hi there!

Work Details

• I am associate professor of methodology and statistics in the Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands
• I do research on the statistical methods for meta-analysis and the analysis of multilevel and longitudinal data, with particular emphasis on computational statistics and software development

Most Important Projects

• metafor: an R package for meta-analysis (package website / package docs)
• metadat: an R package containing meta-analysis datasets (package docs)
• mathjaxr: an R package for use of MathJax in Rd files (i.e., to render mathematical equations in the HTML help files)
• poolr: an R package for pooling the results from (dependent) tests by combining their p-values (package docs)
• course_oor: repo with the materials for my Open Online Introduction to R Course
• oor_stream: repo with the materials for my Open Online R Stream
• meta_analysis_books: R code to reproduce the examples and illustrations from various books on meta-analysis

Get in touch

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• Twitter: https://twitter.com/wviechtb
• Website: https://www.wvbauer.com
• Email: wvb (at) wvbauer (dot) com

meta_analysis_books's Issues

Book suggestion: The Handbook of Research Synthesis and Meta-Analysis by Harris and Cooper(eds.)

The reason for this suggestion is mainly that i see Raudenbush, 1994 cited almost anywhere that refers to the inner workings of random effects models. While the other chapters may not constitute seminal works, the book gets around most of the process of conducting a meta-analysis. It seems part V-VII would probably be the most relevant chapters for reproducing in R however.

Much of the content probably overlaps what is covered in the books you've already gone through but there are some chapters covering some more advanced topics as well.

Lastly, thank you for doing this it is really an awesome piece of work and greatly appreciated!!!