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Table 2 Comparison of implemented methods in the metacp package and other available software

From: metacp: a versatile software package for combining dependent or independent p-values

Software

Metacp (Python & STATA)

metap (R & STATA) [30]

Robust P-value-combination-tests(R) [15]

poolr (R) [29]

SciPy.stats (Python) [31]

Distributions.jl (Julia) [32]

Statsmodels (Python) [33]

Empirical Browns Method (R) [17]

metapro [34]

Stat.tpm [36]

Survcomp (R) [35]

Method

Logitp

X

X

         

Meanp

X

X

         

Fisher

X

X

 

X

 

X

X

   

X

Lancaster

X

  

X

    

X

  

Stouffer

X

X

 

X

X

X

X

   

X

Weighted Stouffer

X

X

 

X

    

X

  

Truncated Product Method (TPM)

 

X

       

X

 

Ordmeta

        

X

  

Inverse chi2

X

  

X

       

Binomial

X

  

X

       

Bonferroni

X

  

X

       

Bonferroni Adjustments (CN, Li-Ji, Galwey, Gao and so on)

X

  

X

       

MinP

X

X

X

X

       

CCT

X

 

X

        

MCM

X

 

X

        

CMC

X

 

X

        

HMP

X

  

X

       

EBM

X

      

X

   

Yang’s extension to EBM

X

          

Weighted Stouffer for Correlated Test

X

  

X

       
  1. The metacp package clearly provides the most extensive collection of analytical methods
  2. "X" indicates that a particular method is implemented in the given software