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[R-meta] Identifying studies in influence analyses output

2 messages · Daniel Mønsted Shabanzadeh, Michael Dewey

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Hey

I am performing a meta-analysis on proportions of complications following a
surgical intervention and analyses are with high heterogeneity. I therefore
explore influential studies in order to exclude them and use this code:

b<-rma(xi=compl_treat, ni=total, measure = "PAS", data=s)
b.1<-influence(b)
options(max.print=999999)
print(b.1)

Which gives me this list:

 rstudent  dffits cook.d  cov.r tau2.del     QE.del    hat weight    dfbs inf
1     1.4286  0.0960 0.0092 0.9992   0.0200 31272.5619 0.0044 0.4369
0.0960
2    -1.0338 -0.0726 0.0053 1.0048   0.0201 30956.0289 0.0049 0.4912
-0.0726
3    -0.4100 -0.0300 0.0009 1.0095   0.0202 31277.1418 0.0049 0.4891
-0.0300
4     1.0644  0.0744 0.0055 1.0039   0.0201 31114.4810 0.0048 0.4827
0.0744
5    -0.4970 -0.0336 0.0011 1.0080   0.0202 31315.6235 0.0043 0.4285
-0.0336
6    -0.1984 -0.0148 0.0002 1.0095   0.0202 31311.0548 0.0046 0.4574
-0.0148
7     1.0481  0.0680 0.0046 1.0036   0.0201 31294.6471 0.0042 0.4171
0.0680
8    -0.3738 -0.0273 0.0008 1.0096   0.0202 31300.1405 0.0049 0.4852
-0.0273
9    -0.9698 -0.0683 0.0047 1.0054   0.0201 31087.1853 0.0049 0.4912
-0.0683
10    0.8417  0.0561 0.0032 1.0058   0.0201 31285.9234 0.0045 0.4483
0.0561
11    1.0238  0.0657 0.0043 1.0037   0.0201 31297.4093 0.0041 0.4091  0.0657


How can I obtain the study identifications in order to identify them in my
dataset?

Regards,
Daniel
2 days later
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Dear Daniel

Comments in-line
On 04/12/2019 11:05, Daniel M?nsted Shabanzadeh wrote:
Please do not do that, they are the most interesting studies.
At this point you did not tell rma what the studies were called (using 
the slab parameter) so it cannot label them. Try supplying slab and see 
what happens.

Michael