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Dear mailing list, I have a question regarding funnel plots with the funnel() function in metafor. I've done a brief search of the archive but could not spot whether this has been addressed, but if it has I do...

Dear mailing list, I have a couple of minor questions regarding methods for assessing publication bias while accounting for dependency. To my understanding, there is no means of running a publication bias analysis, such as trim and fill, with a...

Hi mailing list, Thanks in advance for any help regarding my questions - I have two and they concern the metafor and clubsandwich packages, and multilevel modelling. 1. My first question concerns the difference between the robust() function in metafor and...

Dear all, A lot of great suggestions here, thank you everyone. I will be sure to give a thorough read over those I'm not familiar with and follow up if any questions. I will also add another article that...

Dear Wolfgang, Thank you very much for your quick response! Your responses are very helpful and appreciated. In relation to the second question, this is precisely what I thought it might be doing. However, I'm still a bit confused...

Dear Guido, Thank you very much for your prompt response and for clarifying! In case it is of any interest for future mailing list readers, the publication by Peters et al 2008 (DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2007.11.010...

Dear Wolfgang, Thank you for the response. Much appreciated. This was largely my thinking, as when I manually calculated t I got 7.25: mean_dif <- abs(mean_condition1 - mean_condition2) sd_dif <- sqrt(sd_condition1^2 + sd_condition2^2...

Hi all, I'm currently conducting a meta-analysis that will be using primarily within-subject / repeated measures standardised mean difference as the effect size. As is common, many studies in my sample do not provide means/standard deviations for...