summary.mmeta {xmeta}

Summarize the objects mmeta

Description

Summarize a model of class mmeta fitted by mmeta.

Usage

      ## S3 method for class 'mmeta'
summary(object,...) 

Arguments

object

an object inheriting from class mmeta.

...

additional arguments; currently none is used.

Value

A list with the following components: coefficients, covariance matrix.

References

Chen, Y., Hong, C. and Riley, R. D. (2015). An alternative pseudolikelihood method for multivariate random-effects meta-analysis. Statistics in medicine, 34(3), 361-380.

Chen, Y., Hong, C., Ning, Y. and Su, X. (2015). Meta-analysis of studies with bivariate binary outcomes: a marginal beta-binomial model approach, Statistics in Medicine (in press).

Hong, C., Riley, R. D. and Chen, Y. (2015). An improved method for multivariate random-effects meta-analysis (in preparation).

Chen, Y., Liu, Y., Ning, J., Nie, L., Zhu, H. and Chu, H. (2014). A composite likelihood method for bivariate meta-analysis in diagnostic systematic reviews. Statistical methods in medical research (in press).

Chen, Y., Cai, Y., Hong, C. and Jackson, D. (2015). Inference for correlated effect sizes using multiple univariate meta-analyses, Statistics in Medicine (provisional acceptance).

Chen, Y., Liu, Y., Ning, J., Cormier J. and Chu H. (2014). A hybrid model for combining case-control and cohort studies in systematic reviews of diagnostic tests, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics) 64.3 (2015): 469-489.

Chen, Y., Liu, Y., Chu, H., Lee, M. and Schmid, C. (2017) A simple and robust method for multivariate meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy, Statistics in Medicine, 36, 105-121.

See Also

mmeta

Examples

data(prostate)
fit.nn=mmeta(data=prostate, type="continuous", k=2, method="nn.cl") 
summary(fit.nn)