![]() Each of the tools is suitable for a specific purpose and limited in other areas. There are many existing tools to aid researchers in conducting a meta‐analysis. The tool also supports additional analyses including subgroup analysis, moderator analysis, and various publication bias analyses.įorest plot in Meta‐Essentials The basic results of meta‐analysis are presented using a forest plot and accompanying statistics, including confidence and prediction intervals (see Figure 1 for an example). Meta‐Essentials is suitable for meta‐analysis of a wide range of effect sizes as it automatically calculates effect sizes from commonly reported statistics. The tool can be downloaded from the accompanying website ( which also provides an elaborate (online) user manual, 3 a guide on how to interpret the results of meta‐analysis, 4 and answers to frequently asked questions. 1, 2 In this paper, we present a new tool for meta‐analysis: Meta‐Essentials, which functions as a set of spreadsheet workbooks. The term meta‐analysis refers to a range of methods to provide an overview of effects for the relationship between an independent and a dependent variable.
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