Effect Estimate or Direction Variable
Use this field to specify the variable containing effects, used either for determining sign of the Z-score when study p-values are combined with sample sizes as the weights, or for providing inverse- variance weighted averages to be used for calculating a test statistic.
To Specify an Effect Estimate or Direction Variable:
| 8 | Specify the SAS data sets to be included in the analysis. |
The variables in the specified data sets are displayed in the Available Variables field.
| 8 | Examine the list of available variables. |
| 8 | Highlight the desired variable. |
| 8 | Click  to add the highlighted variable(s) to the Effect Estimate or Direction Variable field, as shown below: |
