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  <dc:title>Meta-Analysis of Medians</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package metamedian version 1.2.2</dc:title>
  <dc:subject>CRAN Task View: MetaAnalysis (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=MetaAnalysis)</dc:subject>
  <dc:description>Implements several methods to meta-analyze studies that report the 
    sample median of the outcome. The methods described by 
    McGrath et al. (2019) &lt;doi:10.1002/sim.8013&gt;, 
    Ozturk and Balakrishnan (2020) &lt;doi:10.1002/sim.8738&gt;, and 
    McGrath et al. (2020a) &lt;doi:10.1002/bimj.201900036&gt; can be 
    applied to directly meta-analyze the median or difference of medians between 
    groups. Additionally, a number of methods (e.g., McGrath et al. (2020b) 
    &lt;doi:10.1177/0962280219889080&gt;, Cai et al. (2021) 
    &lt;doi:10.1177/09622802211047348&gt;, and McGrath et al. (2023) 
    &lt;doi:10.1177/09622802221139233&gt;) are implemented to estimate 
    study-specific (difference of) means and their standard errors in order to 
    estimate the pooled (difference of) means. Methods for meta-analyzing median 
    survival times (McGrath et al. (2026) &lt;doi:10.1002/sim.70533&gt;) are 
    also implemented. See McGrath et al. (2024) &lt;doi:10.1002/jrsm.1686&gt; for a 
    detailed guide on using the package.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 2.10)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: estmeansd, Hmisc, metaBLUE, metafor, stats</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: testthat (&gt;= 3.0.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Sean McGrath &lt;sean.mcgrath514@gmail.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Sean McGrath [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7281-3516&gt;),
  XiaoFei Zhao [aut],
  Stephan Katzenschlager [aut],
  Omer Ozturk [aut],
  Renata Iskander [ctb],
  Russell Steele [aut],
  Andrea Benedetti [aut] (ORCID: &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8314-9497&gt;)</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 3)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-04-18</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=metamedian</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.metamedian</dc:identifier>
</oai_dc:dc>
