<div dir="ltr">Dear All, <div><br></div><div>I conducted a mixed meta-regression model to check the effect of drought stress on proline concentration in leaves. In the model, I include the following moderators: duration of drought (in the day), seed mass, and plant type (coniferous vs. deciduous). The duration of the drought affects the proline content, therefore it was included in the model.</div><div><br></div><div>When I calculate Hedge g (measure=SMD) values I got very big values for some records (e.g. 100, 50, etc.) and publication bias. However, when I calculate effect size using ROM I got very nice numbers without publication bias. </div><div><br></div><div>My first question: Can I use the ROM method for my dataset (I attach the database: proline) or should I use the SMD? </div><div><br></div><div>This is my code (with ROM measure)</div><div><br></div><div>z<-proline<br></div><div>z$logmass<-log(z$<a href="http://seed.mass.mg">seed.mass.mg</a>+1)<br></div><div>hedges<-escalc(measure="ROM",data=z,append=T,m1i=experiment,n1i=n.experiment,sd1i=sd.experiment,m2i=control,n2i=n.control,sd2i=sd.control)<br>hedges<br></div><div><br></div><div>res1 <- <a href="http://rma.mv">rma.mv</a>(yi, vi, mods = ~ logmass + I(logmass^2)+ factor(plant.type) + drougth.day + I(drougth.day^2), random=~1|references,data=hedges, method="REML")<br></div><div><br></div><div>After the model summary, I would like to calculate the mean effect size for the plant type (coniferous and deciduous separately). Does this code correct?</div><div><br></div><div>m <- mean(hedges$logmass)<br>n <- mean(hedges$drougth.day)<br><br>For conifeorus:<br>predict(res1, newmods = c(m, m^2, 0,n,n^2))<br><br>For deciduous:<br>predict(res1, newmods = c(m, m^2, 1,n,n^2))<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Łukasz Dylewski, PhD.<br></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-indent:0cm;line-height:200%"><span lang="EN-US">Institute of Dendrology, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-indent:0cm;line-height:200%"><span lang="EN-US">Polish Academy of Sciences,<br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-indent:0cm;line-height:200%"><span lang="EN-US">Parkowa 5, 62-035
Kórnik, Poland</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>