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  <dc:title>Statistical Methods for Sensitivity Analysis in Meta-Analysis</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package metasens version 1.5-3</dc:title>
  <dc:subject>CRAN Task View: ClinicalTrials (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=ClinicalTrials)</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>CRAN Task View: MetaAnalysis (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=MetaAnalysis)</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>CRAN Task View: MissingData (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=MissingData)</dc:subject>
  <dc:description>The following methods are implemented to evaluate how sensitive the results of a meta-analysis are to potential bias in meta-analysis and to support Schwarzer et al. (2015) &lt;DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-21416-0&gt;, Chapter 5 'Small-Study Effects in Meta-Analysis':
 - Copas selection model described in Copas &amp; Shi (2001) &lt;DOI:10.1177/096228020101000402&gt;;
 - limit meta-analysis by Rücker et al. (2011) &lt;DOI:10.1093/biostatistics/kxq046&gt;;
 - upper bound for outcome reporting bias by Copas &amp; Jackson (2004) &lt;DOI:10.1111/j.0006-341X.2004.00161.x&gt;;
 - imputation methods for missing binary data by Gamble &amp; Hollis (2005) &lt;DOI:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2004.09.013&gt; and Higgins et al. (2008) &lt;DOI:10.1177/1740774508091600&gt;;
 - LFK index test and Doi plot by Furuya-Kanamori et al. (2018) &lt;DOI:10.1097/XEB.0000000000000141&gt;.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: meta (&gt;= 8.0-1)</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Guido Schwarzer &lt;guido.schwarzer@uniklinik-freiburg.de&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Guido Schwarzer [cre, aut] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6214-9087&gt;),
  James R. Carpenter [aut] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3890-6206&gt;),
  Gerta Rücker [aut] (ORCID: &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2192-2560&gt;)</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 2)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2025-05-02</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=metasens</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.metasens</dc:identifier>
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