[R] OFF TOPIC: Nature article on File Drawer Problem in Reserach

[Michael Dewey]

Just to remark that the R community hs been active in developing 
software in this area. The CRAN Task View has almost twenty packages 
claiming to address the problem under various names.

https://cran.r-project.org/view=MetaAnalysis

Whether the methods work has also been the topic of discussion on the 
mailing list dedicated to meta-analysis and interested readers may want 
to search its archives

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-meta-analysis/

Michael


On 25/07/2024 23:40, Robert Baer wrote:
> Chapter 9 might be of interest:
> 
> https://bookdown.org/MathiasHarrer/Doing_Meta_Analysis_in_R/
> 
> And specifically, for funnel plots in R:
> https://wviechtb.github.io/metafor/reference/funnel.html
> 
> Best,
> Rob
> 
> On 7/25/2024 6:40 AM, Richard O'Keefe wrote:
>> I know you didn't want to stimulate discussion, but the problem is not
>> confined to publication.  "Adverse reaction to medication" monitoring
>> programs are plagued by a similarly massive under-reporting problem:
>> adverse reactions are seldom reported unless they are particularly bad
>> or surprising.  (The Ministry of Health in my country estimates 90% of
>> cases are never reported.)  Remembering to check for possible bias
>> from unreported cases is a human problem for analysts.  Which, if any,
>> R packages have proven useful to detecting the existence of a
>> systematic under-reporting problem might well be an appropriate topic
>> for this list.
>>
>> On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 at 02:44, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 using gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Again, this is off topic, not about statistics or R, but I think of
>>> interest to many on this list. The title is:
>>>
>>> "So you got a null result. Will anyone publish it?"
>>>
>>> https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02383-9
>>>
>>> Best to all,
>>> Bert
>>>
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-- 
Michael