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Meta Analysis Guide

by wentorai in wentorai/research-plugins

Conduct systematic meta-analyses with effect size pooling and heterogeneity

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Install Meta Analysis Guide

skills CLI
$ npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill meta-analysis-guide -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install wentorai/research-plugins meta-analysis-guide --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wentorai/research-plugins.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/analysis/statistics/meta-analysis-guide .claude/skills/meta-analysis-guide && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

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Facts

Skill name
meta-analysis-guide
GitHub stars
298
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
230 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
405
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Conduct systematic meta-analyses with effect size pooling and heterogeneity

  • Works in 5 steps: Funnel plot: Visual inspection for… → Egger's test: Regression test for funnel… → Trim-and-fill: Imputes missing studies… → …
  • Data & Analytics work in your project
  • SKILL.md covers Effect Size Computation, Fixed-Effect and…, Forest Plot and Publication Bias Assessment, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Meta Analysis Guide is an agent skill from wentorai/research-plugins. Conduct systematic meta-analyses with effect size pooling and heterogeneity

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Data & Analytics. The repository describes itself as: 350+ academic research skills, MCP configs, and plugins for Research-Claw and AI agents. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Data & Analytics work in your project

Example prompts

  • “/meta-analysis-guide”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Funnel plot: Visual inspection for asymmetry
  2. Egger's test: Regression test for funnel plot asymmetry (p < 0.10 suggests bias)
  3. Trim-and-fill: Imputes missing studies to correct for bias
  4. p-curve analysis: Tests whether significant results contain evidential value
  5. Selection models: Formally model the publication process (e.g., Vevea-Hedges)

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit bf44b3c. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are python).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Meta Analysis Guide loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 24 tokens; SKILL.md has 230 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~24
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

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SKILL.md

The full file from wentorai/research-plugins at commit bf44b3c, republished under its MIT licence (© wentorai). 230 words, ~1,578 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/meta-analysis-guide/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
meta-analysis-guide
description
Conduct systematic meta-analyses with effect size pooling and heterogeneity

Meta-Analysis Guide

A skill for conducting rigorous meta-analyses: computing and pooling effect sizes, assessing heterogeneity, evaluating publication bias, and generating forest plots. Follows Cochrane Handbook and PRISMA guidelines.

Effect Size Computation

Common Effect Size Measures
MeasureUse CaseFormulaInterpretation
Cohen's dMean difference (2 groups)(M1 - M2) / S_pooled0.2 small, 0.5 medium, 0.8 large
Hedges' gd with small-sample correctiond * J(df)Preferred over d for small N
Pearson rCorrelationr0.1 small, 0.3 medium, 0.5 large
Odds RatioBinary outcomes(ad)/(bc)1 = no effect
Risk RatioBinary outcomes(a/(a+b))/(c/(c+d))1 = no effect
SMDStandardized mean differenceSame as Hedges' gWhen scales differ
Computing Effect Sizes in Python
python
import numpy as np
from dataclasses import dataclass

@dataclass
class EffectSize:
    estimate: float
    variance: float
    se: float
    ci_lower: float
    ci_upper: float
    measure: str

def cohens_d(m1: float, m2: float, sd1: float, sd2: float,
              n1: int, n2: int) -> EffectSize:
    """
    Compute Hedges' g (bias-corrected Cohen's d).
    """
    # Pooled standard deviation
    sd_pooled = np.sqrt(((n1-1)*sd1**2 + (n2-1)*sd2**2) / (n1+n2-2))

    # Cohen's d
    d = (m1 - m2) / sd_pooled

    # Small-sample correction (Hedges' g)
    df = n1 + n2 - 2
    j = 1 - (3 / (4*df - 1))
    g = d * j

    # Variance of g
    var_g = (n1+n2)/(n1*n2) + g**2 / (2*(n1+n2))
    se_g = np.sqrt(var_g)

    return EffectSize(
        estimate=g,
        variance=var_g,
        se=se_g,
        ci_lower=g - 1.96*se_g,
        ci_upper=g + 1.96*se_g,
        measure='Hedges_g'
    )

def odds_ratio(a: int, b: int, c: int, d: int) -> EffectSize:
    """
    Compute log odds ratio from a 2x2 table.
    a=treatment success, b=treatment failure, c=control success, d=control failure
    """
    # Add 0.5 continuity correction if any cell is 0
    if any(x == 0 for x in [a, b, c, d]):
        a, b, c, d = a+0.5, b+0.5, c+0.5, d+0.5

    log_or = np.log((a*d) / (b*c))
    var = 1/a + 1/b + 1/c + 1/d
    se = np.sqrt(var)

    return EffectSize(
        estimate=log_or,
        variance=var,
        se=se,
        ci_lower=log_or - 1.96*se,
        ci_upper=log_or + 1.96*se,
        measure='log_OR'
    )

Fixed-Effect and Random-Effects Models

Inverse-Variance Pooling
python
def random_effects_meta(effects: list[EffectSize]) -> dict:
    """
    Random-effects meta-analysis using DerSimonian-Laird estimator.
    """
    yi = np.array([e.estimate for e in effects])
    vi = np.array([e.variance for e in effects])
    wi = 1 / vi
    k = len(effects)

    # Fixed-effect estimate
    fe_estimate = np.sum(wi * yi) / np.sum(wi)

    # Q statistic for heterogeneity
    Q = np.sum(wi * (yi - fe_estimate)**2)
    df = k - 1

    # DerSimonian-Laird tau-squared
    C = np.sum(wi) - np.sum(wi**2) / np.sum(wi)
    tau2 = max(0, (Q - df) / C)

    # Random-effects weights
    wi_re = 1 / (vi + tau2)
    re_estimate = np.sum(wi_re * yi) / np.sum(wi_re)
    re_se = np.sqrt(1 / np.sum(wi_re))
    re_ci = (re_estimate - 1.96*re_se, re_estimate + 1.96*re_se)

    # Heterogeneity statistics
    I2 = max(0, (Q - df) / Q * 100) if Q > 0 else 0
    H2 = Q / df if df > 0 else 1

    return {
        'pooled_effect': re_estimate,
        'se': re_se,
        'ci_95': re_ci,
        'tau_squared': tau2,
        'Q_statistic': Q,
        'Q_df': df,
        'Q_pvalue': 1 - stats.chi2.cdf(Q, df),
        'I_squared': I2,
        'H_squared': H2,
        'interpretation': (
            f"I-squared = {I2:.1f}%: "
            + ('low' if I2 < 25 else 'moderate' if I2 < 75 else 'high')
            + ' heterogeneity'
        )
    }

Forest Plot

python
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

def forest_plot(studies: list[dict], pooled: dict,
                title: str = 'Forest Plot') -> plt.Figure:
    """
    Create a publication-quality forest plot.

    Args:
        studies: List of dicts with 'name', 'effect', 'ci_lower', 'ci_upper', 'weight'
        pooled: Dict with 'pooled_effect', 'ci_95'
    """
    fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(10, max(6, len(studies)*0.5)))
    k = len(studies)

    for i, study in enumerate(studies):
        y = k - i
        ax.plot([study['ci_lower'], study['ci_upper']], [y, y], 'b-', linewidth=1)
        size = study.get('weight', 5) * 2
        ax.plot(study['effect'], y, 'bs', markersize=max(3, min(size, 15)))
        ax.text(-0.05, y, study['name'], ha='right', va='center', fontsize=9,
                transform=ax.get_yaxis_transform())

    # Pooled estimate (diamond)
    pe = pooled['pooled_effect']
    ci = pooled['ci_95']
    ax.fill([ci[0], pe, ci[1], pe], [0.3, 0.6, 0.3, 0], 'r', alpha=0.7)

    ax.axvline(x=0, color='gray', linestyle='--', linewidth=0.5)
    ax.set_xlabel('Effect Size (Hedges g)')
    ax.set_title(title)
    ax.set_yticks([])
    plt.tight_layout()
    return fig

Publication Bias Assessment

Methods to assess and address publication bias:

  1. Funnel plot: Visual inspection for asymmetry
  2. Egger's test: Regression test for funnel plot asymmetry (p < 0.10 suggests bias)
  3. Trim-and-fill: Imputes missing studies to correct for bias
  4. p-curve analysis: Tests whether significant results contain evidential value
  5. Selection models: Formally model the publication process (e.g., Vevea-Hedges)

Reporting Standards

Follow PRISMA 2020 guidelines for reporting:

  • Report all effect sizes with 95% CIs
  • Report Q, I-squared, and tau-squared for heterogeneity
  • Include forest plots for all primary outcomes
  • Report funnel plots and publication bias tests
  • Provide subgroup analyses and sensitivity analyses (leave-one-out)
  • Register the protocol on PROSPERO before conducting the review

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/analysis/statistics/meta-analysis-guide of wentorai/research-plugins.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit bf44b3c

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in wentorai/research-plugins, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Meta Analysis Guide

What does Meta Analysis Guide do?

Conduct systematic meta-analyses with effect size pooling and heterogeneity. Meta Analysis Guide is an agent skill from wentorai/research-plugins.

When should I use Meta Analysis Guide?

Meta Analysis Guide fits situations like: data & Analytics work in your project.

How do I install Meta Analysis Guide in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill meta-analysis-guide -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/analysis/statistics/meta-analysis-guide in wentorai/research-plugins) into .claude/skills/meta-analysis-guide in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Meta Analysis Guide in Codex?

Run `npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill meta-analysis-guide -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/analysis/statistics/meta-analysis-guide in wentorai/research-plugins) into .agents/skills/meta-analysis-guide in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Meta Analysis Guide in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill meta-analysis-guide -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/meta-analysis-guide, .gemini/skills/meta-analysis-guide, .github/skills/meta-analysis-guide and .opencode/skills/meta-analysis-guide in your project.

What does Meta Analysis Guide need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Meta Analysis Guide is instructions for the agent only. Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Meta Analysis Guide access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Meta Analysis Guide safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Meta Analysis Guide use?

Meta Analysis Guide is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Meta Analysis Guide use?

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Who maintains Meta Analysis Guide?

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