The sample mean and standard deviation are two commonly used statistics in meta-analyses, 
    but some trials use other summary statistics such as the median and quartiles to report the results. 
    Therefore, researchers need to transform those information back to the sample mean and 
    standard deviation. This package implemented sample mean estimators by Luo et al. (2016) <arXiv:1505.05687>, sample standard deviation estimators by Wan et al. (2014) <arXiv:1407.8038>, and the best linear unbiased estimators (BLUEs) of location and scale parameters by Yang et al. (2018, submitted) based on sample quantiles derived summaries in a meta-analysis.

Computes the posterior model probabilities for standard meta-analysis models 
    (null model vs. alternative model assuming either fixed- or random-effects, respectively).
    These posterior probabilities are used to estimate the overall mean effect size 
    as the weighted average of the mean effect size estimates of the random- and 
    fixed-effect model as proposed by Gronau, Van Erp, Heck, Cesario, Jonas, & 
    Wagenmakers (2017, <doi:10.1080/23743603.2017.1326760>). The user can define 
    a wide range of non-informative or informative priors for the mean effect size 
    and the heterogeneity coefficient. Moreover, using pre-compiled Stan models, 
    meta-analysis with continuous and discrete moderators with Jeffreys-Zellner-Siow (JZS) 
    priors can be fitted and tested. This allows to compute Bayes factors and 
    perform Bayesian model averaging across random- and fixed-effects meta-analysis 
    with and without moderators. For a primer on Bayesian model-averaged meta-analysis, 
    see Gronau, Heck, Berkhout, Haaf, & Wagenmakers (2021, <doi:10.1177/25152459211031256>).

Data sets from a variety of biological sample matrices, 
    analysed using a number of mass spectrometry based metabolomic analytical techniques.
    The example data sets are stored remotely using GitHub releases 
    <https://github.com/aberHRML/metaboData/releases> which can be accessed from R using the package.
    The package also includes the 'abr1' FIE-MS data set from the 'FIEmspro' package <https://users.aber.ac.uk/jhd/> <doi:10.1038/nprot.2007.511>.