metawho

The goal of metawho is to provide simple R implementation of “Meta-analytical method to Identify Who Benefits Most from Treatments” (called ‘deft’ approach, see reference #2).

metawho is powered by R package metafor and does not support dataset contains individuals for now. Please use stata package ipdmetan if you are more familar with stata code.

Installation

You can install the development version of metawho from GitHub with:

remotes::install_github("ShixiangWang/metawho")

Or install stable release from CRAN.

References

If you use this package in academic field, please cite the following papers:

• Wang, Shixiang, et al. “The predictive power of tumor mutational burden in lung cancer immunotherapy response is influenced by patients’ sex.” International journal of cancer (2019).
• Fisher, David J., et al. “Meta-analytical methods to identify who benefits most from treatments: daft, deluded, or deft approach?.” bmj 356 (2017): j573.