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Meta-analysis in R by Dr Isabel Yorke
27 February 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm UTC+0
About the speaker
Dr Isabel Yorke completed her MSc at the SGDP, and was awarded her PhD investigating environmental factors that contribute to additional mental health problems in people with ASD.
About the talk
Dr Yorke will give a basic introduction to key meta-analytic techniques, using the R package Metafor. She will cover organising input data, calculating/converting between effect sizes, applying models to pool effect sizes, producing plots (e.g. forest and funnel plots) and (time permitting) meta-regression, subset analysis, sensitivity analysis and interpreting results from these functions. We will use examples from meta-analyses of correlations and of group differences.
Disclaimer from Dr Yorke: I will be showing you various meta-analytic methods that I am familiar with. I am by no means a meta-analysis or R expert! There are surely alternative, possibly even better, ways of doing the things I will show you – but these are ways that I have found worked for my purposes. Please feel free to ask questions or make suggestions – we can discuss limitations and merits of different methods and I’m sure I will learn from the session too.