Developed by a team of experts in the U.S. and the U.K.

Full Team - Left to right, (Seated) David Wilson, Betsy Becker, Julian Higgins, Will Shadish, Hannah Rothstein, Michael Borenstein, Mike McDaniel, Steven Tarlow.  (Standing) Spyros Konstantopoulos, Larry Hedges, Harris Cooper, John Ioannidis, Despina Contopoulos-Ioannidis, Jack Vevea, Sue Duval, Mark Lipsey, Alex Sutton, Terri Pigott, Fred Oswald, Wayne Greenwood, Thomas Trikalinos.

UK Team - Left to right, Jonathan Sterne, Doug Altman, Alex Sutton, Michael Borenstein, Julian Higgins, Hannah Rothstein

  

 

Not in photos: Jesse Berlin, David Rindskopf, Michael Brannick, Stephen Senn, Vish Viswesvaran, Jeff Valentine, Roger Harbord.

The program should be cited as Borenstein M, Hedges L, Higgins J, Rothstein H.
Comprehensive Meta-analysis Version 2, Biostat, Englewood NJ (2005).

Funded by the National Institutes of Health

Development of this program was funded by the National Institutes of Health in the US, under the SBIR program. The program was funded under the following grants.

Computer program for meta-analysis *
Combining data types in meta-analysis (AG021360) **
Publication bias in meta-analysis (AG20052) **
Software for meta regression (AG024771) **
Forest plots for meta-analysis  (RDA019280A) ***

*   National Institute of Mental Health, Dr. Michael Huerta
** National Institute on Aging, Dr. Sidney Stahl
*** National Institute of Drug Abuse and Alcohol, Dr. Thomas Hilton

Biostat was founded in 1986 for the purpose of developing computer programs for statistical power analysis and for meta-analysis. Development of these statistical analysis software packages has been funded by the National Institutes of Health under the SBIR program.

To date, Biostat has released the following programs.

Statistical Power Analysis (1988).
Power And Precision Version 1 (1997)
Power And Precision Version 2 (2000)
Comprehensive Meta-analysis Version 1(2000)
Comprehensive Meta-analysis Version 2 (2005)

We have been funded by NIH to develop additional modules for both the power analysis and meta-analysis software packages, and new versions of each are scheduled for release over the next few years.

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