Using jamovi to Conduct Meta-Analyses

A key issue when conducting meta-analysis is deciding which software package to use. This chapter outlines reasons to use the open source software package jamovi. Being based on R allows jamovi to run extensions such as MAJOR, the metafor extension developed for conducting meta-analysis in R. As well as outlining how to install MAJOR, this chapters also shows how to set up data files ready to input data extracted from included studies. This serves as preparation for subsequent chapters where I will discuss how to run meta-analyses of correlations and effect size differences. The chapter ends with a brief overview of alternative software packages you can use to run meta-analysis, including Comprehensive Meta-Analysis and the metafor package in R.