NEWS
metamedian 1.1.1 (2023-12-14)
- Renamed the argument
method_cd to cd_method in the
metamedian() function
- Updated references
metamedian 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
metamedian 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
metamedian 0.1.6 (2022-06-18)
- Fixed an error in Example 2 in the documentation for the
qe()
function
metamedian 0.1.5 (2020-01-28)
- Revised the
pool.med() function to allow users to specify the
desired coverage probability
- Updated references
metamedian 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.
metamedian 0.1.3 (2019-03-09)
- 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
metamedian 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.
metamedian 0.1.1 (2018-11-23)
- Updated DESCRIPTION file
- Updated references
- Added NEWS.md file to track changes
metamedian 0.1.0 (2018-10-06)
- First version released on CRAN