NEWS

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pimeta 1.1.4

• Prediction interval: Wang and Lee (2019)

pimeta 1.1.3 (2019-09-17)

• Prediction & Confidence interval: the pima and cima functions
  • Back-transformartion for logarithmic scale outcomes (print & plot function; thanks to Dr. Morio Aihara).
• CITATION was updated.
• Vignette was updated.

pimeta 1.1.2 (2019-03-11)

• Prediction interval: the pima function
  • Parallel computing for the parametric bootstrap method (see a Vignette file).
  • Forest plot (see a Vignette file).
  • Kenward-Roger's approach.
• Confidence interval: the cima function
  • A Wald-type t-distribution confidence interval. Variance estimator of the average effect: an approximate estimator. Heterogeneity variance: Dersimonian-Laird estimator.
  • A Wald-type t-distribution confidence interval. Variance estimator of the average effect: an approximate, Hartung-Knapp, Sidik-Jonkman, Kenward-Roger estimators. Heterogeneity variance: REML estimator.
  • Profile likelihood confidence interval.
  • Profile likelihood confidence interval with a Bartlett type correction.
  • Forest plot.
• Heterogeneity variance estimators: the tau2h function
  • DerSimonian-Laird estimator.
  • Variance component type estimator.
  • Paule--Mandel estimator.
  • Hartung-Makambi estimator.
  • Hunter--Schmidt estimator.
  • Maximum likelihood estimator.
  • Restricted maximum likelihood estimator.
  • Approximate restricted maximum likelihood estimator.
  • Sidik--Jonkman estimator.
  • Sidik--Jonkman improved estimator.
  • Empirical Bayes estimator.
  • Bayes modal estimator.
  • ML and REML confidence intervals.
• Converting binary data: the convert_bin function
  • Converting binary data to logarithmic odds ratio (see a Vignette file).
  • Converting binary data to logarithmic relative risk.
  • Converting binary data to risk difference.
• The distribution of a positive linear combination of chiqaure random variables: the pwchisq function

pimeta 1.1.1 (2018-09-14)

• Fixed documents.

pimeta 1.1.0 (2018-09-14)

• Refined the package structure.
• New function pima is available (see a Vignette file).

pimeta 1.0.1 (2018-05-10)

• Updated citation informations.

pimeta 1.0.0 (2018-04-06)

• First release.