• 1. Department of Nursing, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong 637000, China;
  • 2. Biodemography of Aging Research Unit, Center for Population Health and Aging, Social Science Research Institute, Duke University Durham, NC, USA;
  • 3. School of Nursing, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China;
  • 4. The Second Clinical College, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210023, China;
  • 5. Center for Evidence-Based and Translational Medicine, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China;
  • 6. West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China;
ZHANGYong-gang, Email: yonggang-zhang@sohu.com
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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

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