Funnel Plot Editor

The Funnel Plot Editor is an area of ProMeta for building a funnel plot from a table of studies, independent of any project. A funnel plot shows each study's effect size against its precision and is the standard picture for judging small-study effects and publication bias (see Evaluating publication bias).

Features

• Enter or edit the studies in a table (name, effect size, standard error), marked as observed or imputed (for example by trim-and-fill).
• Customize the plot through a template: size, font, axis labels, marker size and scale ticks. The template can be exported as a TOML file and reused.
• Download the plot as an editable SVG for your manuscript.
• Save the work as a .funnelplot file, and import or export the studies as CSV.
• Runs in the browser; your data never leaves your machine (see Data & Security).

From an analysis

In a ProMeta project, the publication-bias analyses (trim-and-fill and the others listed in Publication bias analyses) produce the funnel plot for you. On the command line, trim-and-fill and publication-bias write the studies CSV with --plot-csv, and render-funnel draws it (see the commands).

Who it's for

Anyone who already has effect sizes and standard errors, from ProMeta or another tool, and wants a clean, editable funnel plot without running an analysis. Shares ProMeta's releases, known bugs and privacy policy.