Comprehensive Meta-Analysis

“I have been using Comprehensive Meta-Analysis for the past five years and have enjoyed the many features of this software including the numerous options for fitting data into the spreadsheet for analysis of categorical and continuous data and the ease of labeling variables and study names. The built in analysis features are many and easy to apply including the test for heterogeneity and Egger’s test for publication bias.  This software has allowed me to publish meta-analyses with confidence in several peer reviewed journals including the Journal of Cardiology.  Also I am often asked to give lectures on the use of meta-analyses. My demonstrations include examples from this program. When asked by my peers for a reliable meta-analysis package I do recommend this software.”

Al Bartolucci, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama

“Comprehensive Meta-Analysis is easy to use in terms of data entry, flexibility of variables, options with fixed and random analysis and understanding output. I recommend it to all my students conducting meta-analyses because of these reasons. It is the only software program I use to conduct analysis of studies.”

Guy D. Eslick, Associate Professor, The Whiteley-Martin Research Centre, Discipline of Surgery, The University of Sydney

“Over the past several months that I have used Comprehensive Meta-Analysis, I have found it to be highly user-friendly and quite versatile in function. I have incorporated the high resolution plots into my manuscripts and slide presentations with no difficulty. I would like to thank you and your staff for the highly professional technical support.”

Nasrollah Ghahramani, MD, MS, Division of Nephrology

“Comprehensive Meta-Analysis is a modest name, a more fitting name would be deluxe user friendly meta-analysis. In a short-time even beginners can be conducting sophisticated analyses using state of the art methods.”

Prof. Jonathan Rabinowitz, Bar Ilan University, Israel

“I have been using CMA as a researcher and I am really impressed by its user-friendly applicability and unique, sophisticated features. Developed by a team of recognized experts in the field, this excellent, powerful program offers the opportunity even to a beginner to conceive and apply the principles of meta-analysis very quickly and accurately. I recommend the software without any hesitation to my students and colleagues, who are interested to perform any kind of meta-analysis.”

Dr Charalampos Mamoulakis, MD, MSci (Biostat), PhD, FEBU Lecturer of Urology, University of Crete, Medical School Department of Urology, University Hospital of Heraklion, Crete-Greece

“I have been a satisfied user of Comprehensive Meta-Analysis software for about two years. I find the software is easy to use and offers an extensive range of options for analysis. I like being able to toggle between fixed and random effects, and seeing the difference(s) between the two. I also find that the ability to evaluate symmetrical confidence intervals, and have non-symmetry flagged, is a major advantage to the software. The automatic generation of funnel plots, which do not exist as an option in many scientific graphing packages, is particularly of value when discussing bias.”

David M. O'Sullivan, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT USA

“Comprehensive meta-analysis has been an easy to learn and reliable program that was my primary tool in conducting and publishing two large meta-analyses in high impact factor peer reviewed journals.”

Jennifer E. Hettema, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Virginia, Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, UVA Center for Addiction Research and Education, Richmond, VA

“CMA is a very useful and friendly software that has being used both as an auxiliary tool for my papers preparation, and as the program elected for the analysis that I usually do with my students in order to train them in this field of meta-analysis. In brief, this is a very well-conceived statistical analysis software, useful for trainees in statistical analysis as well as for senior researchers.”

J. Marques-Teixeira, MD, PhD, Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist, Aggregate Professor, University of Porto, Clinical Director of Neurobios - Neurosciences Institute

“Comprehensive Meta-Analysis is a cutting-edge tool for researchers who are involved in systematic review and meta-analysis.  It provides methods for analyzing and presenting data that are easy to use and give clear presentations of findings.  This is just a fantastic tool!  Every serious scholar in this area should have it.”

David Weisburd, Ph.D., Walter E Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, Director, Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

“My experience with Comprehensive Meta-analysis is highly positive. The spreadsheet interfaces for data entry are very intuitive. They handle an astonishing wide array of indices and formats for effect sizes, including the possibility of entering them in the spreadsheet  by copy-and-paste. The exploratory phase is easily performed thanks to a variety of facilities, as cumulative meta-analysis, sensitivity analysis by the “one-study-removed” procedure, and subgroup analysis, among others. It covers all basic fixed and random effect models and provides high-quality graphical outputs for reports. The tutorial and the manual are really helpful and friendly. In short, Comprehensive Meta-analysis is my favorite tool both for performing and teaching meta-analysis.”

Professor Juan Botella, Autonomous University of Madrid

“My experience with Comprehensive Meta-analysis is highly positive. The spreadsheet interfaces for data entry are very intuitive. They handle an astonishing wide array of indices and formats for effect sizes, including the possibility of entering them in the spreadsheet  by copy-and-paste. The exploratory phase is easily performed thanks to a variety of facilities, as cumulative meta-analysis, sensitivity analysis by the “one-study-removed” procedure, and subgroup analysis, among others. It covers all basic fixed and random effect models and provides high-quality graphical outputs for reports. The tutorial and the manual are really helpful and friendly. In short, Comprehensive Meta-analysis is my favorite tool both for performing and teaching meta-analysis.”

Professor Juan Botella, Autonomous University of Madrid