

Thanks very much for the reply Michael.I guess I have to combine some levels to  make categorical variable to a binary variable. Dushanthi  > Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 16:38:24 +0100
> To: dushanthi@bell.net; r-help@r-project.org
> From: info@aghmed.fsnet.co.uk
> Subject: RE: [R] "metafor" package, proportions: single groups wrt to a  categorical dependent variable
> 
> At 15:47 28/07/2012, Dushanthi Pinnaduwage wrote:
> >
> >Dear Michael,
> >
> >Thanks very much for your quick response.
> >
> >My outcome is not binary. Outcome has more than 2 values (levels) 
> >and I have counts for the levels.
> >I have not written a code yet.
> 
> Well as the name of the key function in metafor (rma.uni) suggests 
> metafor at present does univariate meta-analysis. If you can reduce 
> the outcome to a single measure of effect (perhaps using proportional 
> odds or continuation ratio) then you can enter that with its standard 
> error using the yi and sei parameters to rma.uni. If the nature of 
> your outcome does not allow that then you have a multivariate 
> meta-analysis. In that case you could try mvmeta (available from CRAN)
> 
> >
> >I would like to know if escalc() can handle categorical outcome data 
> >(more than 2 proportions). If so, how can I input
> >the counts of each level of the categorical outcome to this function.
> >
> >Hope it is little clear now.
> >
> >Dushanthi
> >
> >
> >
> >You do not give us very much to go on here. When you say your outcome
> > >is proportions do you mean your outcome has more than two values and
> > > you are generating (or have been provided with) several proportions
> > > for each study or do you mean it is a binary variable? If the latter
> > > do you in fact have the numerators and denominators or just the
> > > proportion? It would also help if you showed us the code you have
> > > tried and the error message you got (if any) or told us the
> > > discrepancy between the output you obtained and that which you expected.
> >
> >
> >
> > > Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 14:25:08 +0100
> > > To: dushanthi@bell.net; r-help@r-project.org
> > > From: info@aghmed.fsnet.co.uk
> > > Subject: Re: [R] "metafor" package, proportions: single groups 
> > wrt to a categorical dependent variable
> > >
> > > At 01:44 28/07/2012, Dushanthi Pinnaduwage wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > >Dear all, I am using R version 2.15.0 and 'metafor' package version
> > > >1.6-0. Can this version of the package handle proportions from
> > > >a categorical dependent variable for single studies?If so how do I
> > > >set up my dataframe for the raw data from different studies? Also
> > > >how do I give inputs, specially xi, mi (or ni) to the function
> > > >escalc()? Thanks,Dushanthi
> > >
> > > You do not give us very much to go on here. When you say your outcome
> > > is proportions do you mean your outcome has more than two values and
> > > you are generating (or have been provided with) several proportions
> > > for each study or do you mean it is a binary variable? If the latter
> > > do you in fact have the numerators and denominators or just the
> > > proportion? It would also help if you showed us the code you have
> > > tried and the error message you got (if any) or told us the
> > > discrepancy between the output you obtained and that which you expected.
> > >
> > > >
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> > > Michael Dewey
> > > info@aghmed.fsnet.co.uk
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> > >
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