Meta-analysis workbooks for Excel
Meta-Essentials is a free of charge and easy to use tool to facilitate meta-analysis. It functions by allowing users to input study data into pre-built Excel workbooks. It facilitates the integration and synthesis of effect sizes from different studies and can be used for analyses such as subgroup analysis, moderator analysis, and publication bias analyses. It handles different data types (e.g., continuous and binary) and uses Excel formulas to conduct analyses, making it user-friendly and accessible for researchers with limited statistical software experience.It generates forest plots, tables and figures.
