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R: Print and summary methods for objects of class rm5

print.rm5

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Print and summary methods for objects of class rm5

Description

Print and summary methods for objects of class rm5.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'rm5'
print(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'summary.rm5'
print(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'rm5'
summary(object, comp.no, outcome.no, ...)

## S3 method for class 'rm5'
metabias(x, comp.no, outcome.no,
                       method.bias="linreg",
                       method.bias.binary=method.bias,
                       method.bias.or="score",
                       k.min=10, ...)

Arguments

`x`	An object of class `rm5`.
`object`	An object of class `rm5`.
`comp.no`	Comparison number.
`outcome.no`	Outcome number.
`method.bias`	A character string indicating which test for small-study effects is to be used for all outcomes. Either `"rank"`, `"linreg"`, or `"mm"`, can be abbreviated. See function `metabias`
`method.bias.binary`	A character string indicating which test is to be used for binary outcomes. Either `"rank"`, `"linreg"`, `"mm"`, `"count"`, `"score"`, or `"peters"`, can be abbreviated. See function `metabias`
`method.bias.or`	A character string indicating which test is to be used for binary outcomes with odds ratio as summary measure. Either `"rank"`, `"linreg"`, `"mm"`, `"count"`, `"score"`, or `"peters"`, can be abbreviated. See function `metabias`
`k.min`	Minimum number of studies to perform test for small-study effects.
`...`	Additional arguments (ignored at the moment)

Details

Review Manager 5 (RevMan 5) is the current software used for preparing and maintaining Cochrane Reviews (http://tech.cochrane.org/revman/). In RevMan 5, subgroup analyses can be defined and data from a Cochrane review can be imported to R using the function read.rm5.

The R function summary.rm5 can be used to redo all meta-analyses of the imported Cochrane Review.

The R function metabias.rm5 can be used to conduct a test for funnel plot asymmetry for all meta-analyses of the imported Cochrane Review.

The R function metacr is called internally.

Author(s)

Guido Schwarzer sc@imbi.uni-freiburg.de

References

Higgins, J.P.T and S. Green (2011), Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions Version 5.1.0 [Updated March 2011]. The Cochrane Library: http://www.cochrane-handbook.org

Examples

# Locate export data file "Fleiss93_CR.csv"
# in sub-directory of package "meta"
#
filename <- system.file("data/Fleiss93_CR.csv.gz", package = "meta")
#
Fleiss93_CR <- read.rm5(filename)

#
# Print summary results for all meta-analysis:
#
summary(Fleiss93_CR)

#
# Print results for tests of small-study effects:
#
metabias(Fleiss93_CR, k.min=5)