Test the new MIX!!!.
We have been working hard lately to get MIX updated thoroughly. MIX 2.0 is a near-complete rewrite and will be specifically made for Excel 2007 and later. It uses a new structured approach to meta-analysis of exploration, synthesis, and evaluation. Check out the new Web site for MIX 2.0 here and register for the mailing list or become a beta-tester via this link.
Please Visit the New website
Now that MIX 2.0 is almost ready, this website will no longer be updated and maintained. Although MIX 1.7 will remain available for free for users of Excel 2003 and older, the development of MIX will now focus on MIX 2.0. MIX 2.0 is our new appoach to flexible and professional meta-analysis in Excel 2007 and later. MIX 2.0 is available at www.meta-analysis-made-easy.com.
Excel 2003 USers: Downloading The Old MIX 1.7
MIX 1.7 can still be downloaded from the Sourceforge servers:
Citation
Although MIX 1.7 can be used for free, we are using a citation policy. If you use MIX for scientific purposes (for journal publications, book chapters, presentations, workshops, or courses), we ask you to to use the following citations to refer to MIX:
Bax L, Yu LM, Ikeda N, Tsuruta H, Moons KGM: Development and validation of MIX: comprehensive free software for meta-analysis of causal research data. BMC Medical Research Methodology 2006, 6(50).
Bax L, Yu LM, Ikeda N, Tsuruta H, Moons KGM: MIX: comprehensive free software for meta-analysis of causal research data. Version 1.7. http://mix-for-meta-analysis.info, 2008.
Validity
Since some people doubt that Excel can be used for serious statistical work, we took extra care to assess the validity of meta-analysis results from MIX. The validation was done with two major statistical packages, STATA and CMA, and revealed that all results from these programs can be reproduced with MIX. The validation, along with the official introduction of the program, was published in BMC Medical Research Methodology, a peer-reviewed open-access journal.