Implements several methods to meta-analyze studies that report the
sample median of the outcome. When the primary studies are one-group
studies, the methods of McGrath et al. (2019) <doi:10.1002/sim.8013> can
be applied to estimate the pooled median. In the two-group context, the
methods of McGrath et al. (2020) <doi:10.1002/bimj.201900036> can be
applied to estimate the pooled raw difference of medians across groups.

Creates data with identical statistics (metamers) using an iterative
algorithm proposed by Matejka & Fitzmaurice (2017) <DOI:10.1145/3025453.3025912>.

shiny, miniUI, testthat (>= 2.1.0), data.table, covr

shiny, miniUI, testthat (>= 2.1.0), data.table, covr, sf

Analysis of Microbiome Relative Abundance Data using Zero
Inflated Beta GAMLSS and Meta-Analysis Across Studies using
Random Effects Model
person("Nhan", "Ho", email = "nhanhocumc@gmail.com",
role = c("aut", "cre"))
Generalized Additive Model for Location, Scale and Shape (GAMLSS)
with zero inflated beta (BEZI) family for analysis of microbiome relative abundance data
(with various options for data transformation/normalization to address compositional effects) and
random effects meta-analysis models for meta-analysis pooling estimates across microbiome studies
are implemented.
Random Forest model to predict microbiome age based on relative abundances of
shared bacterial genera with the Bangladesh data (Subramanian et al 2014),
comparison of multiple diversity indexes using linear/linear mixed effect models
and some data display/visualization are also implemented.
The reference paper is published by
Ho NT, Li F, Wang S, Kuhn L (2019) <doi:10.1186/s12859-019-2744-2> .
meta, lme4, gdata, matrixStats, plyr, dplyr, tidyr, ggplot2,
gridExtra, RColorBrewer, lmerTest, mgcv, reshape2, caret,
randomForest, grDevices, gplots, magrittr, tools, foreign,
knitr, rmarkdown, zCompositions, compositions, RCurl, httr,
repmis, jsonlite

Microbiome Data Analysis & Meta-Analysis with GAMLSS-BEZI &
Random Effects
meta, lme4, gdata, plyr, dplyr, tidyr, ggplot2, gridExtra,
lmerTest, matrixStats, zCompositions, compositions
testthat, RCurl, httr, repmis, jsonlite, knitr, rmarkdown,
grDevices, gplots, magrittr, tools, foreign, mgcv, reshape2,
caret, randomForest, tsibble, RColorBrewer