[R] rmeta Package

[Ko-Kang Wang]

To Thomas,

I have made some attemp to add the ability to change the level of confidence
interval into your rmeta package.

Currently I've successfully (although I've just tested on 1 data set which
worked) changed meta.MH, I will try to add the parameter into meta.DSL.

My question is, would you like me to send you the rmeta.R file after I've
added the new parameter (currently the changes have been saved under
MyMeta.R)?  Or I shall just keep the file myself for private use?  I think it
will be kind of great if I send it to you after I finish and you may want to
upgrade the package, since it will be much more convinient to be able to
specify the confidence interval without having to go through the actual code
behind the function.

Cheers,

Ko-Kang

Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:

> Ko-Kang Wang <Ko-Kang at xtra.co.nz> writes:
>
> > I want to draw a meta plot with Mantel-Haenszel  analysis (meta.MH) in
> > the "rmeta" package.
> >
> > Is it possible to change the confidence interval?  The default is 95%,
> > but what if I want, say 99% or 90% confidence interval?  I can't seem to
> > find how to do this in the manual.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> There are multiple hardcoded "1.96"s in the code for metaplot() and
> summary.meta.MH().
>
> You'd have to replace those with -qnorm((1-conf.level)/2) (== 2.576
> and 1.645 for 99% resp. 90%) either manually changing the value or -
> better - by adding a parameter to the routines (and contributing your
> fixes back to the maintainer).
>
> --
>    O__  ---- Peter Dalgaard             Blegdamsvej 3
>   c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics     2200 Cph. N
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 Ko-Kang Wang
 Undergraduate Student
 Computer Science/Statistics Double Major
 University of Auckland
 Auckland 1005
 New Zealand
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