A Meta-Analysis Package for R http://www.metafor-project.org/ 2026-04-29T15:10:44+00:00 http://www.metafor-project.org/ http://www.metafor-project.org/lib/exe/fetch.php/wiki:logo.png text/html 2026-04-27T09:14:20+00:00 Wolfgang Viechtbauer (wviechtb@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.metafor-project.org/doku.php/news:news?rev=1777281260 Package News 2026-04-27: The 'Random-Effects Mantel-Haenszel Method' in Cochrane Reviews I was recently asked about the 'random-effects Mantel-Haenszel method' that you often see in Cochrane Reviews. The method isn't directly implemented in metafor, but it is quite easy to reproduce its results. Note that this method is really just a standard random-effects model, but it uses a slightly different estimator of $\tau^2$ text/html 2026-04-27T08:30:41+00:00 Wolfgang Viechtbauer (wviechtb@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.metafor-project.org/doku.php/news:news2025?rev=1777278641 Package News for 2025 2025-09-20: 20,000+ Citations for the JSS Paper In 2010, I published a paper about the metafor package in the Journal of Statistical Software (Viechtbauer, 2010). I have been fortunate enough that users of the package have been quite diligent in citing the package in their papers. Today another milestone was reached, with the paper being cited $R^2$ text/html 2026-04-27T08:20:40+00:00 Wolfgang Viechtbauer (wviechtb@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.metafor-project.org/doku.php/tips:random_effects_mh_method?rev=1777278040 The 'Random-Effects Mantel-Haenszel Method' in Cochrane Reviews The Mantel-Haenszel method is an approach for fitting meta-analytic equal-effects models when dealing with studies providing data in the form of 2x2 tables or in the form of event counts (i.e., person-time data) for two groups (Mantel & Haenszel, 1959). The method is particularly advantageous when aggregating a large number of studies with small sample sizes (the so-called sparse data or increasing strata case).$\tau^2$$\tau^2$$$\h…