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metafor package: study level variation

At 15:02 07/09/2012, Jarrett Byrnes wrote:
I think that you have the situation which is usually dealt with by 
some sort of network meta-analysis and as far as I know, although I 
am sure I shall quickly be told if I am wrong, you have to organise 
this yourself.

If you ignore the studies which only give rise to one effect size you 
could explore whether mvmeta works for your dataset although you may 
need to have information (on the variance-covariance matrix( which I 
suspect you do not have.
Michael Dewey
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