The Comprehensive Meta-analysis (CMA) software is a user-friendly and diverse software. It is capable of handling and executing multiple tests involved in performing Meta-analysis.

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.

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.