Quick and easy meta-anlysis using metafor
Lou Moses is going to present today on how to use the metafor package today.
Being able to do a meta-analysis in depth, or on the fly, is something I’ve come to view as nearly as important a basic skill as the t-test. It’s indispensable whether you’re trying to get a quick estimate of effect size across a literature for a power analysis, concerned about publication bias, or attempting to produce a definitive summary of a literature. And metafor in R is a really easy to use tool for doing that.
This is something I’ve come to see as almost as important a foundational competence as the t-test in my professional life as the capacity to compute a probability distribution. It’s an absolute must-have, regardless of whether you’re seeking for a quick estimate of impact size across a literature for a power analysis or are concerned about publication bias in a particular journal.