How can conduct the Egger's publication test in R?

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Proloy Barua

This section of the following link maybe useful

9.2.1.2 Egger’s Regression Test

https://bookdown.org/MathiasHarrer/Doing_Meta_Analysis_in_R/pub-bias.html

Francesco Sanmarchi

The following answer might be useful

https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/458715/how-do-i-go-about-doing-eggers-test-for-publication-bias-in-a-meta-analysis

Dimitris Mavridis

this paper may be useful (look at the metabias command)

https://ebmh.bmj.com/content/22/4/153

Eva Tsouparopoulou

Dear Hussein,

I hope you find the link below helpful.

https://rdrr.io/cran/metafor/man/regtest.html

Good luck with your project,

Eva