Forest Plots

Function to create forest plots.

forest(x, ...)

Arguments

x

either an object of class "rma", a vector with estimates, or an object of class "cumul.rma". See ‘Details’.

...

other arguments.

Details

Currently, methods exist for three types of situations.

In the first case, object x is a fitted model object coming from the rma.uni, rma.mh, or rma.peto functions. The corresponding method is then forest.rma.

Alternatively, object x can be a vector with estimates. The corresponding method is then forest.default.

Finally, object x can be an object coming from the cumul function. The corresponding method is then forest.cumul.rma.

Author

Wolfgang Viechtbauer (wvb@metafor-project.org, https://www.metafor-project.org).

References

Lewis, S., & Clarke, M. (2001). Forest plots: Trying to see the wood and the trees. British Medical Journal, 322(7300), 1479–1480. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1479

Viechtbauer, W. (2010). Conducting meta-analyses in R with the metafor package. Journal of Statistical Software, 36(3), 1–48. https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v036.i03

See also

forest.rma, forest.default, and forest.cumul.rma for the specific method functions.