pooled function

Get pooled effect estimates from metaFluMoDL object

This function returns the pooled effect estimates for all incidence proxy terms (three for influenza, and optionally for RSV) from a metaFluMoDL

object. It returns a summary.FluMoDL object that can be further used in analyses.

pooled(m)

Arguments

• m: An object of class metaFluMoDL, holding the results of a random-effects multivariate meta-analysis of summary.FluMoDL

  first-stage model summaries

Returns

An object of class summary.FluMoDL, holding the pooled coefficients and variance-covariance matrices for the three influenza incidence proxies (four if hasRSV(m) is TRUE). The returned object contains the string "pooled" in its $type element, to distinguish it from first-stage model summaries

or BLUP summaries (Best Linear Unbiased Predictor). The returned summary.FluMoDL object also has no $pred element, as it is not associated with a particular dataset and cross-basis matrices (which is a prerequisite to create crosspred objects).

References

• Gasparrini A, Armstrong B, Kenward MG. Multivariate meta-analysis for non-linear and other multi-parameter associations. Stat Med 2012;31(29):3821–39.

See Also

summary.FluMoDL, metaFluMoDL