Meta-Analysis

Advanced R users from all professional groups. (For introductory R courses please revisit the course list.)

• CHF 600.- für Angehörige der UZH/ETH und assoziierter Institute
• CHF 800.- für Alumni der UZH/ETH, Angehörige anderer Universtitäten, Forschungseinrichtungen und Ämter des Bundes oder der Kantone, non-profit Organisationen
• CHF 1200.- für Firmen

Meta-analysis, the ‘analysis of analyses’, is the term used to describe methods for numerically synthesizing multiple sources of scientific evidence about the same hypothesis. As a systematic and quantitative summary of evidence, meta-analysis has the potential to provide a more powerful and comprehensive description of the current state of knowledge in a particular field and, for this reason, has become an increasingly important tool for researchers in the past decade. This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of meta-analysis and provide an in-depth review of tools for conducting meta-analyses in the R language. After completion of this course, users will know when and how to apply standard methods of meta- analysis in R and will also have gained more experience with advanced R programming topics, such as function writing and reproducible reporting.

• Overview and comparison of R Packages For Meta-Analysis
• Calculating Effect Sizes
• Fixed Effects Model
• Random Effects Model
• Evaluating Heterogeneity
• Meta-Regression
• Assessing Publication Bias
• Meta-analysis with Markdown
• Meta-analysis with Big Data
• Other Advanced Topics

For all Zurich R Courses participants should bring their own laptops to the course and will be informed by email in advance which packages they need to install.