Table 1 Overview of the MIX program's features

- Program size: 22 Mb (with 20 Mb tutor files)

- Descriptive dichotomous (2 × 2 table data)

- Compatibility: Windows, Excel 2000 or later

- Descriptive continuous (n, m sd)

- Installation: Standard set-up program

- Comparative (am, se)

- Max 100 studies

Numerical output options

- Outcome measures

Data input options

   ◦ Odds ratio

- Manual

   ◦ Risk ratio

- Excel and CSV-files

   ◦ Risk difference

- Effect size and statistic conversions

   ◦ Mean difference

   ◦ Hedges' g, Cohen's D

Graphical output options

   ◦ Correlation coefficient, Fisher's Z

- Box-and-whiskers plots

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- Z-score histogram

- Fixed effect analyses

- Normal-quantile plot

   ◦ Inverse variance

- Standard & annotated forest plots

   ◦ Mantel-Haenszel

   ◦ Points proportional to study weights

   ◦ Peto

- Cumulative forest plot

- Random effects analyses

- Galbraith plot

   ◦ Dersimonian-Laird

   ◦ Radial axis

- Cumulative analyses

- Exclusion sensitivity plot

   ◦ Ordered by publication date

- L'Abbe plot

   ◦ Ordered by other variables

- Baujat plot

- Individual study data

- Funnel plot

   ◦ Outcome results

   ◦ 1/se, se, P value, N

   ◦ P-values

- Egger's regression plot

   ◦ Weights

- Macaskill's regression plot

- Trim-and-fill plot

- Heterogeneity

   ◦ Cochran's Q

Export options

   ◦ Higgins' H and I²

- Output to clipboard

- Data set to Excel or CSV

- Publication bias

- Ready-made reports to Excel

   ◦ Fail-safe N

- Multi-resolution graphs to clipboard

   ◦ Begg's rank correlation test

   ◦ Egger's regression test

Learning items

   ◦ Macaskill's regression test

- Output tutor

   ◦ Trim-and-fill test

- Concept tutor

- Continuity correction

- Built-in data sets

   ◦ User-defined value

- Theory guide (Flash)

   ◦ C~1/n opposite group

- Program guide (Flash)