Use this field to select the
variable
containing effects, either used for determining sign of the
Z
-score when study
p-values
are combined with
sample sizes
as the weights, or for providing the effects whose inverse-
variance
weighted averages are used for calculating a
test statistic
.
Important
: This variable should be named consistently across all of the data sets. If different variable names are used, the additional names must be specified on the
Other Variable Names
tab.
The variables in the specified data sets are displayed in the
Available Variables
field.
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Click
to add the highlighted variable to the
Effect Estimate or Direction Variable
field, as shown below:
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