Meta-Analysis Workshop

Materials for a 1.5-2 day meta-analysis workshop built with Quarto.

Overview

This repository contains a comprehensive Quarto book covering meta-analytic methods, from basic concepts to advanced topics including:

• Introduction to meta-analysis
• Calculating and interpreting effect sizes
• Effect size assumptions
• Fixed-effect vs. random-effects models
• Heterogeneity and nuisance heterogeneity
• Meta-regression
• Multi-level models
• Complex non-independence
• Phylogenetic meta-analysis
• Publication bias

Viewing the Book

The book is published at: https://<username>.github.io/meta-analysis_workshop/

Local Development

Prerequisites

• Quarto
• R (version 4.0 or higher)
• Required R packages (see below)

Installing R Dependencies

install.packages(c(
  "knitr", "rmarkdown", "metafor", "flextable", 
  "tidyverse", "orchaRd", "pander", "mathjaxr", 
  "equatags", "vembedr", "bookdown"
))

Building the Book Locally

To preview the book locally:

quarto preview

To render the complete book:

quarto render

The rendered book will be in the _book/ directory.

GitHub Pages Setup

The book is automatically deployed to GitHub Pages via GitHub Actions whenever changes are pushed to the main/master branch.

First-time Setup

1. Go to your repository Settings
2. Navigate to Pages (under "Code and automation")
3. Under "Build and deployment":
   • Source: Select "GitHub Actions"
4. Push changes to trigger the workflow

The site will be available at https://<username>.github.io/<repository-name>/

Repository Structure

• *.qmd - Quarto markdown files for each chapter
• _quarto.yml - Quarto book configuration
• index.qmd - Book landing page
• .github/workflows/publish.yml - GitHub Actions workflow for deployment
• bib/ - Bibliography files (if present)

Contributing

To add or modify content:

1. Edit the relevant .qmd file
2. Preview changes locally with quarto preview
3. Commit and push to trigger automatic deployment

License

Materials for meta-analysis workshop