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The goal ofmetawho is to provide simple R implementation of“Meta-analytical method to Identify Who Benefits Most from Treatments”(called ‘deft’ approach, seereference #2).

metawho is powered by R packagemetafor and does not supportdataset contains individuals for now. Please use stata packageipdmetan if you are more familar with stata code.

You can install the development version ofmetawho from GitHub with:

remotes::install_github("ShixiangWang/metawho")

Or install stable release from CRAN.

If you use this package in academic field, please cite the followingpapers:

• Wang, Shixiang, et al. “The predictive power of tumor mutationalburden in lung cancer immunotherapy response is influenced bypatients’ sex.” International journal of cancer (2019).
• Fisher, David J., et al. “Meta-analytical methods to identify whobenefits most from treatments: daft, deluded, or deft approach?.”bmj 356 (2017): j573.