Updated fsn() and added type='General' method.

wviechtb · Sep 5, 2023 · 041769f · 041769f
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 Package: metafor
-Version: 4.3-15
-Date: 2023-08-30
+Version: 4.3-16
+Date: 2023-09-05
 Title: Meta-Analysis Package for R
 Authors@R: person(given = "Wolfgang", family = "Viechtbauer", role = c("aut","cre"), email = "[email protected]", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-3463-4063"))
 Depends: R (>= 4.0.0), methods, Matrix, metadat, numDeriv

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-# metafor 4.3-15 (2023-08-30)
+# metafor 4.3-16 (2023-09-05)
 
 - added `getmfopt()` and `setmfopt()` functions for getting and setting package options and made some of the options more flexible
 
+- removed argument `weighted` from `fsn()` (whether weighted or unweighted averages are used in Orwin's method is now simply determined by whether sampling variances are specified or not); added `type="General"` to `fsn()` as a generalization of the Orwin and Rosenberg methods (that allows for heterogeneity based on a random-effects model)
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 - further improved the theming of all plots based on the foreground and background colors; within RStudio, plot colors can also be automatically chosen based on the theme
 
 - added (for now undocumented) `vccon` argument to `rma.mv()`