Package: ra4bayesmeta
Type: Package
Title: Reference Analysis for Bayesian Meta-Analysis
Version: 1.0-7
Date: 2021-04-21
Authors@R: c(person("Manuela", "Ott", role = c("aut", "cre"),
                     email = "manuela.c.ott@gmail.com"),
              person("Malgorzata", "Roos", role = "aut")
	    )
Author: Manuela Ott [aut, cre],
  Malgorzata Roos [aut]
Maintainer: Manuela Ott <manuela.c.ott@gmail.com>
Description: Functionality for performing a principled reference analysis in the Bayesian normal-normal hierarchical model used for Bayesian meta-analysis, as described in Ott, Plummer and Roos (2021, "How vague is vague? How informative is informative? Reference analysis for Bayesian meta-analysis", under minor revision for Statistics in Medicine). Computes a reference posterior, induced by a minimally informative improper reference prior for the between-study (heterogeneity) standard deviation. Determines additional proper anti-conservative (and conservative) prior benchmarks. Includes functions for reference analyses at both the posterior and the prior level, which, given the data, quantify the informativeness of a heterogeneity prior of interest relative to the minimally informative reference prior and the proper prior benchmarks. The functions operate on data sets which are compatible with the 'bayesmeta' package.
Depends: bayesmeta, R (>= 3.5.0)
License: GPL (>= 2)
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2021-04-21 06:18:15 UTC; manuela
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2021-04-23 07:50:03 UTC
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