This article helps in importing and loading data from other programs such as Ms-Excel. It will take up the case example of Cholecystitis and gallbladder carcinoma illustrated in manual data entry procedure.
Following the discussion on the significance of effect sizes, and selecting suitable data entry formats, this next step is to understand different software functionalities through appropriate case studies.
The discussion surrounding meta analysis has effect size at the prime spot. It is the magnitude or size of an effect and usually refers to treatment effect in comprehensive meta analysis (CMA).
The earlier article (Introduction to CMA) gave a brief overview of the various functionalities offered by the CMA software. This article acquaints the user with the procedure of selecting appropriate data entry formats.
Findings in meta-analysis are integrated by the means of effect sizes also known as the currency of meta-analysis. They span the group of ‘indices’. An index is a statistical measure which is a compound representation of the several observations in the study. It gives a general dimension to the phenomenon.