[R-meta] help
Michael Dewey
lists at dewey.myzen.co.uk
Wed Oct 18 13:08:40 CEST 2017
You could assume some distribution of ages between the lower and upper
limit and then calculate its mean.
Note though that what you propose is an ecological analysis - you are
not looking at the effect of age but at the effect of being enrolled in
a study with people of a certain average age.
On 18/10/2017 09:51, Yalemzewod Gelaw wrote:
> *Does missing of mean age dealt for Meta-analysis in r? *
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> Hi everyone,
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> I am doing a meta-analysis for single proportion.
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> During my review I found some articles that didn’t present the mean age of
> the study participants, some of them reported the age group. I want to do a
> moderator analysis (meta-regression) to find out the source of
> heterogeneity. I am asking your experience whether it’s possible to handle
> the missing mean age using missing data handling techniques.
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> To give you some information about the data: 22 out of 69 included articles
> didn't report the mean age.
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> If I am not burden you with this, please provide me supportive documents.
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> Thank you for any help!
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> *Sincerely, *
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> *Yalemzewod Assefa Gelaw (Yalem)*
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> *PhD Candidate, the University of Queensland, Australia *
> *Email: yalassefa at gmail.com <http://yalassefa@gmail.com/y.gelaw@uq.edu.au>*
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