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title: 'metasplines: Pool Literature-Based and Individual Participant Data Based Spline
  Estimates'
version: 0.1.1
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.metasplines
abstract: 'Pooling estimates reported in meta-analyses (literature-based, LB) and
  estimates based on individual participant data (IPD) is not straight-forward as
  the details of the LB nonlinear function estimate are not usually reported. This
  package pools the nonlinear IPD dose-response estimates based on a natural cubic
  spline from lm or glm with the pointwise LB estimates and their estimated variances.
  Details will be presented in Härkänen, Tapanainen, Sares-Jäske, Männistö, Kaartinen
  and Paalanen (2026) "Novel pooling method for nonlinear cohort analysis and meta-analysis
  estimates: Predicting health outcomes based on climate-friendly diets" Epidemiology
  <https://doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0000000000001932>.'
authors:
- family-names: Härkänen
  given-names: Tommi
  email: tommi.harkanen@thl.fi
preferred-citation:
  type: unpublished
  title: 'Novel pooling method for nonlinear cohort analysis and meta-analysis estimates:
    Predicting health outcomes based on climate-friendly diets'
  authors:
  - name: Tommi Härkänen
  - name: Heli Tapanainen
  - name: Laura Sares-Jäske
  - name: Satu Männistö
  - name: Niina E. Kaartinen
  - name: Laura Paalanen
  year: '2025'
  notes: Under revision
repository: https://cran.r-universe.dev
commit: 92d7c29869af32fcbe6bda39be0cf8c9b78dc2bd
date-released: '2026-01-12'
contact:
- family-names: Härkänen
  given-names: Tommi
  email: tommi.harkanen@thl.fi