heterometa-package {heterometa}

Convert Various Meta-Analysis Heterogeneity Measures

Description

Published meta-analyses routinely present one of the measures of heterogeneity introduced in Higgins and Thompson (2002) <doi:10.1002/sim.1186>. For critiquing articles it is often better to convert to another measure. Some conversions are provided here and confidence intervals are also available.

Details

Index of help topics:

dat.higgins02           Example data
heterometa-package      Convert Various Meta-Analysis Heterogeneity
                        Measures
higgins                 Compute heterogeneity statistics after Higgins

Published meta–analyses often only provide a subset of the heterogeneity measures first described in Higgins and Thompson (2002). This package provides a way of converting between some of them. It also contains the data used as examples in that original article.

References

Higgins JPT, Thompson SG (2002). “Quantifying heterogeneity in a meta–analysis.” Statistics in Medicine, 21, 1539–1558. doi:10.1002/sim.1186.