The metacor, which is developed based on the classical frequentist theory, is a specified package for performing meta-analysis of correlation coefficients in R software. This package was officially launched in 2011. Based on the DerSimonian-Laird method and Olkin-Pratt method, correlation coefficients can be directly pooled by using this package. The metacor package also can be used to draw the forest plot and is easy to use; however, it still needs to be improved. This paper briefly introduced how to perform a meta-analysis of correlation coefficients using the metacor package in R software through an example.
Citation: WEIXue-mei, LIMiao-zhu, JINYing-hui, CHENHao, ZENGXian-tao, ZHANGYong-gang. How to Perform Meta-analysis of Correlation Coefficients Using metacor Package in R Software. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2015, 15(8): 980-983. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.20150163 Copy