[R-sig-ME] Meta-analysis using lmer

[Brant Inman]

I asked a similar question a while back on R-help.  As far as I know,  
the only way to do this type of meta-analysis using the S language was  
to use S-Plus. My understanding is that SAS, HLM and MLWin can do this  
too.

All the examples from meta-analysis in Chapter 6 of the Hox book are  
do-able in R though.  I have the code if you want it.

Brant Inman


On Mar 30, 2009, at 1:16 PM, Yu-Kang Tu wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to use lme and lmer to do random effects meta-analysis  
> as described in Hox (2002) and UCLA website: http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/mlwin/examples/ma_hox/chapter8.htm
>
> Basically, what I want to do is to constraint one residual error  
> variance to be unity and use the inverse of standard errors as the  
> covariate (weight) for this variance. And an additional random  
> effects terms is used to estimate the between-study variation. I did  
> take a look at the Pinheiro & Bates book on varFunc, but  
> unfortunately, I cannot figure out how this can be done. Any  
> suggestions/advices will be greatly appreciated. Many thanks.
>
> Yu-Kang
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