Radial Plot Editor

The Radial Plot Editor is an area of ProMeta for opening and styling radial plots, also known as Galbraith plots. A radial plot shows each study's standardized effect against its precision, with a confidence cone: studies outside the cone point to heterogeneity, and a line with an intercept helps to spot small-study effects. See Assessing heterogeneity and Evaluating publication bias.

Features

• Open a radial plot computed by an analysis and style it: template, labels, elements.
• Optional best-fitting line with an intercept, confidence cone and effect-size reading arc.
• Download the plot as an editable SVG for your manuscript.
• Save the work as a .radialplot file, and import or export the studies and the plot elements (lines, cone, arc) as CSV.
• Runs in the browser; your data never leaves your machine (see Data & Security).

From an analysis

The radial plot analysis and the limit meta-analysis produce this plot. With a random-effects model the plot is generalized (tau² enters the weights). On the command line, radial-plot and limit-meta-analysis write the studies and the elements with --plot-csv, and render-radial draws them (see the commands).

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