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  • Applying the SAS Program to the Complete Begg’s Test, the Egger’sTest, and the Macaskill’s Test for Publication Bias of Meta-analysis

    The conclusions of meta-analyses are susceptible to various of biases, and publication bias is one of such main bias. Therefore, Checking for evidence of publication bias should be undertaken routinely at the preliminary stage of a meta-analysis. Begg’s test, Egger’s test, and Macaskill’s test are usually used to objectively identify publication bias in meta-analyses. In order to conveniently use these methods, the SAS program of these three tests was designed in this paper. In order test practical data, the fact that the output of this program of SAS software was consisted with the output of STATA software was validated. So, this program is an alternative way to do such hypothesis tests to identify the publication bias in meta-analyses.

    Release date:2016-09-07 02:10 Export PDF Favorites Scan
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