metamedian: Meta-Analysis of Medians
Implements several methods to meta-analyze studies that report the
sample median of the outcome. The methods described by
McGrath et al. (2019) <doi:10.1002/sim.8013>,
Ozturk and Balakrishnan (2020) <doi:10.1002/sim.8738>, and
McGrath et al. (2020a) <doi:10.1002/bimj.201900036> can be
applied to directly meta-analyze the median or difference of medians between
groups. Additionally, a number of methods (e.g., McGrath et al. (2020b)
<doi:10.1177/0962280219889080>, Cai et al. (2021)
<doi:10.1177/09622802211047348>, and McGrath et al. (2023)
<doi:10.1177/09622802221139233>) are implemented to estimate
study-specific (difference of) means and their standard errors in order to
estimate the pooled (difference of) means. Methods for meta-analyzing median
survival times (McGrath et al. (2025) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2503.03065>) are
also implemented. See McGrath et al. (2024) <doi:10.1002/jrsm.1686> for a
detailed guide on using the package.
| Version: |
1.2.1 |
| Depends: |
R (≥ 2.10) |
| Imports: |
estmeansd, Hmisc, metaBLUE, metafor, stats |
| Suggests: |
testthat (≥ 3.0.0) |
| Published: |
2025-03-18 |
| DOI: |
10.32614/CRAN.package.metamedian |
| Author: |
Sean McGrath 
[aut, cre],
XiaoFei Zhao [aut],
Stephan Katzenschlager [aut],
Omer Ozturk [aut],
Renata Iskander [ctb],
Russell Steele [aut],
Andrea Benedetti
[aut] |
| Maintainer: |
Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath514 at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: |
https://github.com/stmcg/metamedian/issues |
| License: |
GPL (≥ 3) |
| URL: |
https://github.com/stmcg/metamedian,
https://doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1686 |
| NeedsCompilation: |
no |
| Citation: |
metamedian citation info |
| Materials: |
README, NEWS |
| In views: |
MetaAnalysis |
| CRAN checks: |
metamedian results |
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