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I want to statistically compare the mean values from eight different groups. I do not have the raw data, but have the sample size, mean and associated standard deviation and standard error. I was wondering if there was any code in R to do the ANOVA test on summary data, as well as the subsequent post-hoc, pair-wise comparisons. 

n <- c(796,95,245,1645,701,1157,211,144)
means <- c(648,680,569,602,594,596,606,623)
sd <- c(146.3,90.5,61.2,98.9,113.6,106.8,87.8,76.9)


#Assigning the standard deviation and the sample size for each sample 
s.x <-146.3
n.x <-796
s.y <-90.5
n.y <-95
#Conducting the t-test with summary statistics
tsum.test(mean(648), s.x, n.x, mean(680), s.y, n.y)
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    $\begingroup$ This post points to the rpsychi package, which does at least some of what you want, with the ind.oneway.second function for the ANOVA. $\endgroup$
    – Glen_b
    May 1, 2014 at 17:08
  • $\begingroup$ Thanks for the help @Glen_b, I found the package 'BSDA' that has code to perform a t-test with the summary data. I am most interested in the pairwise comparisons between the means of all 8 groups, therefore, I am doing the 23 t-tests and using a Bonferroni correction (alpha/n) to adjust the p-value. Does this seem appropriate? $\endgroup$
    – user44690
    May 1, 2014 at 19:05
  • $\begingroup$ I edited my original post to include the code that I am using to perform the multiple t-tests. $\endgroup$
    – user44690
    May 1, 2014 at 19:14
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    $\begingroup$ This is not 'the' answer, however check the website statpages.info/anova1sm.html. $\endgroup$
    – Muthu Palani
    Feb 18, 2018 at 16:29
  • $\begingroup$ @MuthuPalani, that's a really neat tool, thanks a lot for providing the link! Does the tool on the page you provide do a Welch-t-test? It's hard to see from the description on the page $\endgroup$
    – P.Weyh
    Oct 5, 2021 at 6:59

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