Package: metamedian
Type: Package
Title: Meta-Analysis of Medians
Version: 1.2.2
Authors@R: c(person("Sean", "McGrath", role = c("aut", "cre"), 
                     email = "sean.mcgrath514@gmail.com",
                     comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-7281-3516")),
              person("XiaoFei", "Zhao", role = c("aut"),
                      email = "xiaofei.zhao@mail.mcgill.ca"),
              person("Stephan", "Katzenschlager", role = c("aut"),
                      email = "Stephan.Katzenschlager@med.uni-heidelberg.de"),
              person("Omer", "Ozturk", role = c("aut"), 
                      email = "ozturk.4@osu.edu"),
              person("Renata", "Iskander", role = c("ctb")),
              person("Russell", "Steele", role = c("aut"),
                      email = "russell.steele@mcgill.ca"),
              person("Andrea", "Benedetti", role = c("aut"), 
                      email = "andrea.benedetti@mcgill.ca",
                      comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-8314-9497")))
Maintainer: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath514@gmail.com>
Description: 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. (2026)
        <doi:10.1002/sim.70533>) are also implemented. See McGrath et
        al. (2024) <doi:10.1002/jrsm.1686> for a detailed guide on
        using the package.
Imports: estmeansd, Hmisc, metaBLUE, metafor, stats
License: GPL (>=3)
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
URL: https://github.com/stmcg/metamedian,
        https://doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1686
BugReports: https://github.com/stmcg/metamedian/issues
Depends: R (>= 2.10)
Suggests: testthat (>= 3.0.0)
Config/testthat/edition: 3
Config/pak/sysreqs: cmake make libicu-dev libuv1-dev
Repository: https://stmcg.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-04-18 21:37:27 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/stmcg/metamedian
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: cac7b84a92345ba4e4ea3e5c4c768405a38afe74
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-06-17 07:39:16 UTC; root
Author: Sean McGrath [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7281-3516>),
  XiaoFei Zhao [aut],
  Stephan Katzenschlager [aut],
  Omer Ozturk [aut],
  Renata Iskander [ctb],
  Russell Steele [aut],
  Andrea Benedetti [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8314-9497>)