[R-meta] Meta-analysis with R, use treatment effect as input instead of 2 groups?

[Felix M]

Dear Guido,

thank you very much for the swift reply. Yes, that is indeed the
information I have available for each study.

I will start testing this right away! I may have more detailed questions
later.

I'll study the help pages as well of course. I just didn't know where to
start on this particular issue, and I figured it would be best to just ask
people who already have lots of experience with the software. I'm glad this
mailing list exists!

Best regards, Felix

2017-10-17 20:18 GMT+02:00 Guido Schwarzer <sc at imbi.uni-freiburg.de>:

> Am 17.10.17 um 17:57 schrieb Felix M:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>>
>> I’m fairly new to R and would like to meta-analyze data where I only have
>> available the differences between the outcomes for the experimental groups
>> and the control groups, as well as the SEMs and SDs of those delta values.
>>
>
> I assume that you have the following information for each study:
> delta = mean difference between experimental and control group
> SEM = standard error of delta
> SD = standard deviation of delta
>
> In order to conduct a meta-analysis you only need delta and SEM.
>
> You can use, for example, metagen() in R package meta in the following way:
> metagen(delta, SEM)
>
> Similarly, you can use rma() in R package metafor:
> rma(yi = delta, sei = SEM)
>
> See the corresponding help pages for more information, e.g. help(metagen).
>
> Best wishes,
> Guido
>
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