Package: CoTiMA
Type: Package
Title: Continuous Time Meta-Analysis ('CoTiMA')
Version: 1.0.3
Date: 2026-07-20
Authors@R: c(person("Christian", "Dormann", role = c("aut","cph")),
            person("Markus", "Homberg", email = "cotima@uni-mainz.de", role = c("aut", "com", "cre")),
            person("Olga", "Diener", role = c("ctb")),
            person("Christina", "Guthier", role = c("ctb")),
            person("Manuel", "Voelkle", role = c("ctb")))    
Description: The 'CoTiMA' package performs meta-analyses of correlation
        matrices of repeatedly measured variables taken from studies
        that used different time intervals. Different time intervals
        between measurement occasions impose problems for meta-analyses
        because the effects (e.g. cross-lagged effects) cannot be
        simply aggregated, for example, by means of common fixed or
        random effects analysis. However, continuous time math, which
        is applied in 'CoTiMA', can be used to extrapolate or
        intrapolate the results from all studies to any desired time
        lag. By this, effects obtained in studies that used different
        time intervals can be meta-analyzed. 'CoTiMA' fits models to
        empirical data using the structural equation model (SEM)
        package 'ctsem', the effects specified in a SEM are related to
        parameters that are not directly included in the model (i.e.,
        continuous time parameters; together, they represent the
        continuous time structural equation model, CTSEM). Statistical
        model comparisons and significance tests are then performed on
        the continuous time parameter estimates. 'CoTiMA' also allows
        analysis of publication bias (Egger's test, PET-PEESE
        estimates, zcurve analysis etc.) and analysis of statistical
        power (post hoc power, required sample sizes). See Dormann, C.,
        Guthier, C., & Cortina, J. M. (2019)
        <doi:10.1177/1094428119847277>. and Guthier, C., Dormann, C., &
        Voelkle, M. C. (2020) <doi:10.1037/bul0000304>.
License: GPL-3
URL: https://github.com/CoTiMA/CoTiMA
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
Depends: OpenMx (>= 2.22.11), ctsem (>= 3.11.1), lavaan (>= 0.6),
        foreach (>= 1.5.1), R (>= 4.5.0)
Imports: Matrix (>= 1.7.3), MBESS (>= 5.0.1), crayon (>= 1.3.4), psych
        (>= 1.9.12), doParallel (>= 1.0.15), rootSolve (>= 1.8.2),
        abind (>= 1.4-5), RPushbullet (>= 0.3.3), openxlsx (>= 4.2.2),
        zcurve (>= 1.0.7), scholar (>= 0.2.0), stringi (>= 1.0.7),
        MASS, methods
Config/roxygen2/version: 8.0.0
Config/pak/sysreqs: chromium cmake libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev
        libglpk-dev make libgsl0-dev libicu-dev libpng-dev libxml2-dev
        libssl-dev
Repository: https://cotima.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-07-20 10:05:27 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/cotima/cotima
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: 6f72ff47f9e6ea3920073382c1cd159abab8737c
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-07-20 11:33:40 UTC; root
Author: Christian Dormann [aut, cph],
  Markus Homberg [aut, com, cre],
  Olga Diener [ctb],
  Christina Guthier [ctb],
  Manuel Voelkle [ctb]
Maintainer: Markus Homberg <cotima@uni-mainz.de>