Summarizing meta-analysis and meta-regression model fits

Description

Summary method for class "metaLik".

Usage

## S3 method for class 'metaLik'
summary(object, ...)

Arguments

Details

summary.metaLik prints summary information about within-study heterogeneity, parameter estimates, standard errors, first- and higher-order log-likelihood ratio statistics. See test.metaLik for more details about the first- and higher-order statistics.

Value

The function summary.metaLik returns the metaLik object from which summary.metaLik is called.

See Also

The generic functions coefficients, confint and vcov.

Function test.metaLik allows for hypothesis testing.

Examples

## meta-analysis
data(education)
m <- metaLik(y~1, data=education, sigma2=sigma2)
summary(m)
## meta-analysis
data(albumin)
m <- metaLik(y~1, data=albumin, sigma2=sigma2)
summary(m)
## meta-regression  
data(vaccine)
m <- metaLik(y~latitude, data=vaccine, sigma2=sigma2)
summary(m)
## meta-regression
data(cholesterol)
m <- metaLik(heart_disease~chol_reduction, data=cholesterol, weights=1/sigma2)
summary(m)

Results