Conduct penalized meta-analysis (“pema”) In meta-analysis, there are often between-study differences. These can be coded as moderator variables, and controlled for using meta-regression. However, if the number of moderators is large relative to the number of studies, such an analysis may be overfitted. Penalized meta-regression is useful in these cases, because it shrinks the regression slopes of irrelevant moderators towards zero.
Use R-universe to install the development version of pema by running the following code:
options(repos = c(
cjvanlissa = 'https://cjvanlissa.r-universe.dev',
CRAN = 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))
install.packages('pema')The pema validation paper is currently in preprint stage. The code and results of the validation study are publicly available. You can cite pema using the following citation (please use the same citation for either the package, or the paper); consider updating that citation once the preprint is published:
Van Lissa, C. J., & van Erp, S. (2021, December 9). Select relevant moderators using Bayesian regularized meta-regression. Retrieved from psyarxiv.com/6phs5
This repository contains the source code for the R-package called pema.
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