The meta-analysis is performed to increase the statistical power by integrating the results from several experiments. The p-values are often combined in meta-analysis when the effect sizes are not available. The metapro R package provides not only traditional methods (Becker BJ (1994, ISBN:0-87154-226-9), Mosteller, F. & Bush, R.R. (1954, ISBN:0201048523) and Lancaster HO (1949, ISSN:00063444)), but also new method named weighted Fisherâ s method we developed. While the (weighted) Z-method is suitable for finding features effective in most experiments, (weighted) Fisherâ s method is useful for detecting partially associated features. Thus, the users can choose the function based on their purpose. Yoon et al. (2021) "Powerful p-value combination methods to detect incomplete association" <doi:10.1038/s41598-021-86465-y>.

Computes the posterior model probabilities for standard meta-analysis models (null model vs. alternative model assuming either fixed- or random-effects, respectively). These posterior probabilities are used to estimate the overall mean effect size as the weighted average of the mean effect size estimates of the random- and fixed-effect model as proposed by Gronau, Van Erp, Heck, Cesario, Jonas, & Wagenmakers (2017, <doi:10.1080/23743603.2017.1326760>). The user can define a wide range of non-informative or informative priors for the mean effect size and the heterogeneity coefficient. Moreover, using pre-compiled Stan models, meta-analysis with continuous and discrete moderators with Jeffreys-Zellner-Siow (JZS) priors can be fitted and tested. This allows to compute Bayes factors and perform Bayesian model averaging across random- and fixed-effects meta-analysis with and without moderators. For a primer on Bayesian model-averaged meta-analysis, see Gronau, Heck, Berkhout, Haaf, & Wagenmakers (2021, <doi:10.1177/25152459211031256>).

This package provides a comprehensive collection of functions for conducting meta-analyses in R. The package includes functions to calculate various effect sizes or outcome measures, fit fixed-, random-, and mixed-effects models to such data, carry out moderator and meta-regression analyses, and create various types of meta-analytical plots (e.g., forest, funnel, radial, L'Abbe, Baujat, GOSH plots). For meta-analyses of binomial and person-time data, the package also provides functions that implement specialized methods, including the Mantel-Haenszel method, Peto's method, and a variety of suitable generalized linear (mixed-effects) models (i.e. mixed-effects logistic and Poisson regression models). Finally, the package provides functionality for fitting meta-analytic multivariate/multilevel models that account for non-independent sampling errors and/or true effects (e.g. due to the inclusion of multiple treatment studies, multiple endpoints, or other forms of clustering). Network meta-analyses and meta-analyses accounting for known correlation structures (e.g. due to phylogenetic relatedness) can also be conducted.

According to a phenomenon known as "the wisdom of the crowds," combining point estimates from multiple judges often provides a more accurate aggregate estimate than using a point estimate from a single judge. However, if the judges use shared information in their estimates, the simple average will over-emphasize this common component at the expense of the judgesâ private information. Asa Palley & Ville Satopää (2021) "Boosting the Wisdom of Crowds Within a Single Judgment Problem: Selective Averaging Based on Peer Predictions" <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=3504286> proposes a procedure for calculating a weighted average of the judgesâ individual estimates such that resulting aggregate estimate appropriately combines the judges collective information within a single estimation problem. The authors use both simulation and data from six experimental studies to illustrate that the weighting procedure outperforms existing averaging-like methods, such as the equally weighted average, trimmed average, and median. This aggregate estimate -- know as "the knowledge-weighted estimate" -- inputs a) judges estimates of a continuous outcome (E) and b) predictions of others average estimate of this outcome (P). In this R-package, the function knowledge_weighted_estimate(E,P) implements the knowledge-weighted estimate. Its use is illustrated with a simple stylized example and on real-world experimental data.

Framework to facilitate patient subtyping with similarity network fusion and meta clustering. The similarity network fusion (SNF) algorithm was introduced by Wang et al. (2014) in <doi:10.1038/nmeth.2810>. SNF is a data integration approach that can transform high-dimensional and diverse data types into a single similarity network suitable for clustering with minimal loss of information from each initial data source. The meta clustering approach was introduced by Caruana et al. (2006) in <doi:10.1109/ICDM.2006.103>. Meta clustering involves generating a wide range of cluster solutions by adjusting clustering hyperparameters, then clustering the solutions themselves into a manageable number of qualitatively similar solutions, and finally characterizing representative solutions to find ones that are best for the user's specific context. This package provides a framework to easily transform multi-modal data into a wide range of similarity network fusion-derived cluster solutions as well as to visualize, characterize, and validate those solutions. Core package functionality includes easy customization of distance metrics, clustering algorithms, and SNF hyperparameters to generate diverse clustering solutions; calculation and plotting of associations between features, between patients, and between cluster solutions; and standard cluster validation approaches including resampled measures of cluster stability, standard metrics of cluster quality, and label propagation to evaluate generalizability in unseen data. Associated vignettes guide the user through using the package to identify patient subtypes while adhering to best practices for unsupervised learning.

This package provides tools for meta-analysis in the presence of hierarchical (and/or sampling) dependence, including with gene expression studies.

Create an immutable container holding metadata for the purpose of better enabling programming activities and functionality of other packages within the clinical programming workflow.

Takes QC signal for each day and normalize metabolomic data that has been acquired in a certain period of time. At least three QC per day are required.

This package provides functions for preprocessing, automated gating and meta-analysis of cytometry data. It also provides functions that facilitate the collection of cytometry data from the ImmPort database.

Fused lasso method to cluster and estimate regression coefficients of the same covariate across different data sets when a large number of independent data sets are combined. Package supports Gaussian, binomial, Poisson and Cox PH models.

Fits and tests meta regression models and generates a number of useful test statistics: next to t- and z-tests, the likelihood ratio, bartlett corrected likelihood ratio and permutation tests are performed on the model coefficients.

Create meta tags for R Markdown HTML documents and Shiny apps for customized social media cards, for accessibility, and quality search engine indexing. metathis currently supports HTML documents created with rmarkdown', shiny', xaringan', pagedown', bookdown', and flexdashboard'.

This package implements routines for metagenome sample taxonomy assignments collection, aggregation, and visualization. Accepts the EDGE-formatted output from GOTTCHA/GOTTCHA2, BWA, Kraken, MetaPhlAn, DIAMOND, and Pangia. Produces SVG and PDF heatmap-like plots comparing taxa abundances across projects.

Provide functions for performing abundance and compositional based binning on metagenomic samples, directly from FASTA or FASTQ files. Functions are implemented in Java and called via rJava. Parallel implementation that operates directly on input FASTA/FASTQ files for fast execution.

Collection of functions to compute within-study covariances for different effect sizes, data visualization, and single and multiple imputations for missing data. Effect sizes include correlation (r), mean difference (MD), standardized mean difference (SMD), log odds ratio (logOR), log risk ratio (logRR), and risk difference (RD).

Meta-CART integrates classification and regression trees (CART) into meta-analysis. Meta-CART is a flexible approach to identify interaction effects between moderators in meta-analysis. The method is described in Dusseldorp et al. (2014) <doi:10.1037/hea0000018> and Li et al. (2017) <doi:10.1111/bmsp.12088>.

This package provides functions for Meta-analysis Burden Test, Sequence Kernel Association Test (SKAT) and Optimal SKAT (SKAT-O) by Lee et al. (2013) <doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2013.05.010>. These methods use summary-level score statistics to carry out gene-based meta-analysis for rare variants.

This package performs Bayesian meta-analysis, meta-regression and model-based meta-analysis using Stan'. Includes binomial-normal hierarchical models and option to use weakly informative priors for the heterogeneity parameter and the treatment effect parameter which are described in Guenhan, Roever, and Friede (2020) <doi:10.1002/jrsm.1370>.

This package provides an interface to MetaPost (Hobby, 1998) <http://www.tug.org/docs/metapost/mpman.pdf>. There are functions to generate an R description of a MetaPost curve, functions to generate MetaPost code from an R description, functions to process MetaPost code, and functions to read solved MetaPost paths back into R.

This package provides a metadata structure for clinical data analysis and reporting based on Analysis Data Model (ADaM) datasets. The package simplifies clinical analysis and reporting tool development by defining standardized inputs, outputs, and workflow. The package can be used to create analysis and reporting planning grid, mock table, and validated analysis and reporting results based on consistent inputs.

The package conducts pathway testing from untargetted metabolomics data. It requires the user to supply feature-level test results, from case-control testing, regression, or other suitable feature-level tests for the study design. Weights are given to metabolic features based on how many metabolites they could potentially match to. The package can combine positive and negative mode results in pathway tests.

This package performs meta-analysis and meta-regression using standard and robust methods with confidence intervals based on the profile likelihood. Robust methods are based on alternative distributions for the random effect, either the t-distribution (Lee and Thompson, 2008 <doi:10.1002/sim.2897> or Baker and Jackson, 2008 <doi:10.1007/s10729-007-9041-8>) or mixtures of normals (Beath, 2014 <doi:10.1002/jrsm.1114>).

This package provides common components (classes, methods, documentation) for packages that conduct meta-analytic corrections and sensitivity analyses for within-study and/or across-study biases in meta-analysis. See the packages PublicationBias', phacking', and multibiasmeta'. These package implement methods described in, respectively: Mathur & VanderWeele (2020) <doi:10.31219/osf.io/s9dp6>; Mathur (2022) <doi:10.31219/osf.io/ezjsx>; Mathur (2022) <doi:10.31219/osf.io/u7vcb>.

Facilitate frequentist and Bayesian meta-analysis of diagnosis and prognosis research studies. It includes functions to summarize multiple estimates of prediction model discrimination and calibration performance (Debray et al., 2019) <doi:10.1177/0962280218785504>. It also includes functions to evaluate funnel plot asymmetry (Debray et al., 2018) <doi:10.1002/jrsm.1266>. Finally, the package provides functions for developing multivariable prediction models from datasets with clustering (de Jong et al., 2021) <doi:10.1002/sim.8981>.