[R] meta.summaries and se's of effect sizes

[Thomas Lumley]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Ingmar Visser wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I would like to use meta.summaries from package rmeta to do a meta-analysis.
> I have available effect sizes as r's (which could be easily transformed to
> effect sizes in terms of d's).
>
> My problem is that I'm not sure what the se's of these r's should be ...
>

I'm not sure even what r-values and d-values are in this context.

meta.summaries takes a number of independent estimates of the same 
quantity together with standard errors and combines them to get a single 
estimate. It doesn't care what the quantity is.

 	-thomas