[R] Meta-Analysis of proportions

[Michael Dewey]

At 09:58 28/06/2007, Chung-hong Chan wrote:
>OpenBUGS should be something related to Bayesian statistics.
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>You may refer to Chapter 12 of Handbook
>http://cran.r-project.org/doc/vignettes/HSAUR/Ch_meta_analysis.pdf
>It talks about meta-regression.
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>On 6/28/07, Monica Malta <momalta at cict.fiocruz.br> wrote:
>>Dear colleagues,
>>
>>I'm conducting a meta-analysis of studies evaluating adherence of 
>>HIV-positive drug users into AIDS treatment, therefore I'm looking 
>>for some advice and syntax suggestion for running the 
>>meta-regression using proportions, not the usual OR/RR frequently 
>>used on RCT studies.

Monica, you have a number of options.
1 - weight each study equally
2 - weight each individual equally
3 - use the usual inverse variance procedure, possibly transforming 
the proportions first
4 - something else I have not though of

You could do 3 using rmeta which is available from CRAN. Programming 
1 or 2 is straightforward.
Of course, you do need to decide which corresponds to your scientific question.


>>Have already searched already several handbooks, R-manuals, mailing 
>>lists, professors, but... not clue at all...
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>>Does anyone have already tried this? A colleague of mine recently 
>>published a similar study on JAMA, but he used OpenBUGS - a 
>>software I'm not familiar with...
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>>If there is any tip/suggestion for a possible syntax, could someone 
>>send me? I need to finish this paper before my PhD qualify, but I'm 
>>completely stuck...
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>>So, any tip will be more than welcome...I will really appreciate it!!!
>>
>>Thanks in advance and congrats on the amazing mailing-list.
>>
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>>Bests from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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>>Monica
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>>Monica Malta
>>Researcher
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