Document Type
Working Paper
Date of this Version
1-2014
Abstract
This paper describes the core features of the R package mmeta, which implements the exact posterior inference of odds ratio, relative risk, and risk difference given either a single 2 x 2 table or multiple 2 x 2 tables when the risks within the same study are independent or correlated.
Keywords
Appell function, Bayesian inference, bivariate beta-binomial, exact distribution, hypergeoneometric function, Sarmanov family
Date Posted: 04 August 2017
Comments
At the time of publication, author Yong Chen was affiliated with The University of Texas. Currently, he is a faculty member at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.