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Meta-analysis in Medical Research: The handbook for the understanding and practice of meta-analysis

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This book is totally useless.
This book is short, 98 pages in total, approximately 50% are computer screen-saver pictures and tables, devided in 7 chapters. The first 6 chapters talk about the basics of metaanalysis, which is really very very basic. The last chapter explains how to use a computer program of meta-analysis, provided on a CD as part of the book.
This program is useless.
This program cannot be installed on Vista or Win-7. So I installed on a Win-XP computer.
This program allows you to enter information of publicaton year, publication journal, the arthor, type of application (full paper vs abstract), rank of publicaton quality (you decide), which I think is not necessary.
For real data entry, this program allows you to enter information of "expos" and "events" and "drop" in two groups (placebo and treated). That's all. Nothing else. Although the book say all data is saved automatically, anything you saved cannot be reopened. The worst part, this program does not do anything. The output graphs are always standard graphs (no matter what data you entered, you will see the same graphs)!!!
Absolutely useless.

It is very good for beginners, to understand the methodology of meta-analysis. It is easy to understand.