Package Updates
Changes in Version 1.2.1
(2025-03-18)
- Minor update to the documentation
Changes in Version 1.2.0
(2025-03-07)
- Added the
metamedian_survival function for
meta-analyzing median survival times
- Added the
dat.lung data set
- Updated references and documentation
Changes in Version 1.1.1
(2023-12-13)
- Renamed the argument
method_cd to
cd_method in the metamedian() function
- Updated references
Changes in Version 1.1.0
(2023-09-16)
- Added the skewness test of Shi et al. (2023) to the
describe_studies() function
- Added the
dat.phq9_raw and dat.phq9 data
sets
- Changed the default values for the
se_method and
sd_method arguments in the metamean()
function. They are now set based on the value set for the
mean_method argument.
- Renamed the
'wan' option for the
mean_method argument to 'hozo/wan/bland'.
Similarly, renamed the 'shi_normal' option for the
'sd_method' argument to 'wan/shi_normal'. the
metamean() function.
- Expanded the error checking
- Removed Travis CI
- Updates to the documentation
Changes in Version 1.0.0
(2023-02-27)
- Added the
metamean() function, which can apply several
methods to estimate study-specific means and their standard errors in
order to estimate the pooled (difference of) means
- Added the
cd() function, which applies the Confidence
Distribution method of Ozturk and Balakrishnan (2020) to estimate the
pooled median
- Added the
metamedian() function, which is a wrapper for
the qe(), cd(), and pool.med()
functions.
- Added the
describe_studies() function for performing
descriptive analyses
- Added the
dat.age_raw, dat.age,
dat.asat_raw, dat.asat,
dat.ck_raw, and dat.ck data sets and
corresponding example applications in the documentation
- Added unit tests for the
metamean(),
metamedian(), and describe_studies()
functions
Changes in Version 0.1.6
(2022-06-18)
- Fixed an error in Example 2 in the documentation for the
qe() function
Changes in Version 0.1.5
(2020-01-27)
- Revised the
pool.med() function to allow users to
specify the desired coverage probability
- Updated references
Changes in Version 0.1.4
(2019-05-19)
- Fixed an error in the
qe() function when calculating
the sampling variance for studies reporting means. Consequently, removed
the need for the internal qe.group.level() function
- Fixed an error in the
qe() function when data provided
are of class “integer”
- Made
qe.fit() and print.qe.fit() defunct.
These functions were moved to the ‘estmeansd’ package.
Changes in Version 0.1.3
(2019-03-08)
- Begun using Git as a version-control system and hosting repository
on GitHub (https://github.com/stmcg/metamedian) for the development
version of the package
- Fixed an issue with
qe() throwing errors
- Added URL and BugReport webpage to the DESCRIPTION file
- Added README.md file
- Removed export of
get.scenario(), as we do not
anticipate users applying this function
Changes in Version 0.1.2
(2019-02-10)
- Deprecated
qe.fit() and print.qe.fit()
functions. These functions were moved to the ‘estmeansd’ package. As a
result, ‘estmeansd’ was imported.
Changes in Version 0.1.1
(2018-11-23)
- Updated DESCRIPTION file
- Updated references
- Added NEWS.md file to track changes
Changes in Version 0.1.0
(2018-10-06)
- First version released on CRAN