Message-ID: <2BEFCBB9-49B1-4D39-A0DD-2C6DD20C4E2E@utah.edu>
Date: 2017-08-23T22:44:18Z
From: Nathan Leon Pace, MD, MStat
Subject: [R-meta] Two ways to calculate subgroup and overall average effect sizes
In-Reply-To: <8b2f1bfe42c64751a9b62fa37079c910@UM-MAIL3216.unimaas.nl>
Hi Wolfgang,
I have a k = 29 SMD meta analysis.
The moderator is a three level factor.
painearly1surgery.rma <- rma(yi = yi, vi = vi, mods = ~ surgery,
data = painearly.df, test = 'knha', digits = 3)
painearly2surgery.rma.mv <- rma.mv(yi = yi, V = vi, mods = ~ surgery,
random = ~ surgery | study, struct = 'DIAG',
data = painearly.df, test = 't', digits = 3)
There is a nearly 10 fold variation in the individual tau^2s.
Variance Components:
outer factor: study (nlvls = 29)
inner factor: surgery (nlvls = 3)
estim sqrt k.lvl fixed level
tau^2.1 0.082 0.287 8 no open
tau^2.2 0.759 0.871 10 no lap
tau^2.3 0.086 0.294 11 no other
The average tau^2 is:
tau^2 (estimated amount of residual heterogeneity): 0.312 (SE = 0.110)
tau (square root of estimated tau^2 value): 0.559
The omnibus test of moderators is not rejected in either model.
Test of Moderators (coefficient(s) 2:3): (average tau^2)
F(df1 = 2, df2 = 26) = 2.082, p-val = 0.145
Test of Moderators (coefficient(s) 2:3): (individual tau^2)
F(df1 = 2, df2 = 26) = 2.643, p-val = 0.090
Is there a meaningful statistical comparison of the individual tau^2s?
Are there other ways to compare the model fits (AIC or BIC)?
The anova function won?t mix rma.uni and rma.mv objects.
Nathan