title: metaSEM: an R package for meta-analysis using structural equation modeling.
abstract: The metaSEM package provides functions to conduct univariate, multivariate, and three-level meta-analyses using a structural equation modeling (SEM) approach via the OpenMx package in the R statistical platform. It also implements the two-stage SEM approach to conducting fixed- and random-effects meta-analytic SEM on correlation or covariance matrices. This paper briefly outlines the theories and their implementations. It provides a summary on how meta-analyses can be formulated as structural equation models. The paper closes with a conclusion on several relevant topics to this SEM-based meta-analysis. Several examples are used to illustrate the procedures in the supplementary material.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore Singapore, Singapore.
authors.forename: Mike W-L
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Cheung
keywords: R; meta-analysis; meta-analytic structural equation modeling; metaSEM; structural equation modeling