Abstract
Meta-analysis is a statistical methodology that combines or integrates the results of several independent clinical trials considered by the analyst to be `combinable' (Huque 1988). However, completeness and user-friendliness are uncommon both in specialised meta-analysis software packages and in mainstream statistical packages that have to relyon user-written commands. We implemented the meta-analysis methodology in an Microsoft Excel add-in which is freely available and incorporates more meta-analysis models (including the iterative maximum likelihood and prole likelihood) than are usually available, while paying particular attention to the user-friendliness of the package.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Journal of Statistical Software |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 2009 |