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[R-meta] Robvis - how to work with it and metafor

3 messages · Wolfgang Viechtbauer, Andrzej Andrzej

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Hi,
I have read this:
https://mcguinlu.github.io/robvis/articles/metafor.html
There is a step in it like:
```

# Create some example data for ROB2 using rob_dummy(), and add it to
the BCG# data.# We don't need a "Study" column for this example, so we
set `study = FALSE`dat_rob <- rob_dummy
<https://mcguinlu.github.io/robvis/reference/rob_dummy.html>(13,
               "ROB2",                     study = FALSE)dat_analysis
<- cbind <https://rdrr.io/r/base/cbind.html>(dat_bcg, dat_rob)

```
Why dat_rob was created and attached to dat_bcg ?
What is this for ? Is it only an example to show coloured visualisation ?
Or does it thoroughly calculating ROB for bcg.data ?
And here:
https://bookdown.org/MathiasHarrer/Doing_Meta_Analysis_in_R/risk-of-bias-plots.html
they described an excel table with some data to be created before importing
it to R.
Anybody knows what is this about ?
best,
Andrzej
1 day later
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Dear Andrzej,

Please post in plain text (note how the code in your post below is quite mangled up).

I am not sure if I quite understand your questions, but 'dat_rob' was created to illustrate how to add risk of bias assessments to a forest plot. It was created with rob_dummy(), which just simulates some RoB values for a given dataset for illustration purposes:

https://mcguinlu.github.io/robvis/reference/rob_dummy.html

As for that book chapter: The spreadsheet contains the RoB assessments for the dataset used in their example. Not sure what else to say about this.

Best,
Wolfgang
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Dear Wolfgang,
thank you for clarification.
I misunderstood for what Robvis was created. I thought it was there to
assess and help with publication bias and not to add a few coloured circles
to the forest plot.I found this: DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.13724 and will
study it.
best,
Andrzej

wt., 7 lis 2023 o 10:50 Viechtbauer, Wolfgang (NP) <
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