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Mick & others who might be interested-- see below for a list i prepared some time ago. there are 2 reviews you might like to look at that mention some of these programs plus others, including EasyMA, RevMan, and Stata. the references for the 2 reviews are: Matthias Egger, Jonathan AC Sterne, George Davey Smith . Meta-Analysis Software. BMJ No 7126 Volume 316 [Education and debate section], Saturday 17 January 1998 Sharon-Lise T. Normand. Meta-analysis software: a comparative review. American Statistican, 1995, 49(3), 298-309. there is also CDC sharewhare for meta-analysis, available from their web homepage. i believe that it's called MetaEpi. hope this helps. cheers, fred -- Fredric M. Wolf, Ph.D. Professor & Chair Department of Medical Education University of Washington E-312 Health Sciences/Box 357240 Seattle, WA 98195-7240 Tel: 206.543.2259 FAX: 206.543.3461 E-mail: [log in to unmask] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Meta-analysis software--somewhat dated list i prepared several years ago, but descriptions are still pretty accurate (i think): Lau J. Meta-analyst v0.9. both random & fixed effects for pooled: odds ratios (Mantel-Haenszel & Peto-modified M-H), relative risk ratios, risk differences. can also get NNT, homogeniety stats, & do 'cumulative' meta-anlaysis). DOS program; works with Windows, however, printing can be tricky but prints very nice postscript figures. Eddy DM, Hasselblad V, Schacter R. Meta-analysis by the Confidence Profile Method. San Diego: Academic Press, 1992. (text plus FAST-PRO software for Bayesian meta-analysis routines) note: this is Bayesian approach, but if the priors are set=zero, then essentially should have a conventional analysis. It handles both fixed & random effects for binary data. It also can handle continuous data, but i am uncertain if it can do random effects for this or not. Johnson BT. DSTAT: Software for the Meta-analytic Review of Research Literatures. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1989. [software & manual for meta-analysis routines for continuous data] To the best i can tell, this just calculates fixed effects. Mullen B. Advanced BASIC Meta-analysis. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1989. [meta-analysis routines for continuous data] To the best i can tell, this just calculates fixed effects. NOTE: there is a floppy disk that comes with the book. Schwarzer R. Meta-analysis programs. Behavior, Research Methods, & Computers. 1988; 20(3):338. [description of meta-analysis routines for continuous data--can send for shareware] True Epistat. Epistat Services. 20111 Cap Rock Circle. Richardson, TX 75080-3417. [has meta-analysis routines for binary and continuous data. handles both fixed & random effects.] Mick Braddick wrote: > > I'm looking for user friendly software, preferably freeware, to help > with meta-analyses, both to do the stats and to present the results > graphically. Any suggestions > thanks > Mick Braddick, MB, ChB > Clinical Epidemiologist, Office of Provider Education and Guideline > Development > Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound > 201 - 16th Ave. E, CEB-1 > Seattle, WA 98112 > Phone 206-326-3937 > Fax 206-326-3774 > Email [log in to unmask] > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%