Meta-Analysis using Structural Equation Modeling

A collection of functions for conducting meta-analysis using a structural equation modeling (SEM) approach via the 'OpenMx' and 'lavaan' packages. It also implements various procedures to perform meta-analytic structural equation modeling on the correlation and covariance matrices, see Cheung (2015) .


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The metaSEM package conducts univariate and multivariate meta-analyses using a structural equation modeling (SEM) approach via the OpenMx package. It also implements the two-stage SEM approach to conduct meta-analytic structural equation modeling on correlation/covariance matrices.

The stable version can be installed from CRAN by:

install.packages("metaSEM")

The developmental version can be installed from GitHub by:

## Install remotes package if it has not been installed yet
# install.packages("remotes")

remotes::install_github("mikewlcheung/metasem")

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install.packages("metaSEM")

1.5.0 by Mike Cheung, 2 years ago


https://github.com/mikewlcheung/metasem


Report a bug at https://github.com/mikewlcheung/metasem/issues


Browse source code at https://github.com/cran/metaSEM


Authors: Mike Cheung [aut, cre]


Documentation:   PDF Manual  


GPL (>= 2) license


Imports Matrix, MASS, ellipse, graphics, stats, utils, mvtnorm, numDeriv, lavaan

Depends on OpenMx

Suggests metafor, semPlot, R.rsp, testthat, matrixcalc


Imported by symSEM.

Suggested by metaDyn, metavcov, psychonetrics, semPlot.

Enhanced by texreg.


See at CRAN