Meta-regression with dependent variables of different types The textbook examples of metaregression I demonstrate how to combine coefficients when the dependent variable has the one distribution (for instance, exclusively binomial or exclusively continuous). 
Is there a method of combining regression coefficients for a meta-regression when the dependent variables are a mix of distributions: for instance, counts, ordinal and continuous?
 A: This situation can easily arise in areas like health where people often present their data as categorisations of essentially continuous underlying variables. If the binary outcome as been presented as a (log) odds ratio and the continuous as mean differences then dividing the log odds by 1.65 (due to Cox) or by pi / \sqrt(3) converts to mean differences depending on assumptions about the distribution (and they are almost identical anyway. If you are using metafor in R these are available there. You may also be interested in

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for an introductory account and

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who gives a worked example
