Breakdown of Methods Used to Combine -values Investigated.

The first column of the table provides the names of the methods used to combine -values investigated in our study. The second column lists the reference number cited in this paper for the publication (Ref) corresponding to the method used. The third column provides the equation number for the method distribution function used to compute the formula -value. The fourth column indicates if a method equation can accommodate (acc.) weight when combining -value. The fifth column gives the normalization (nor.) procedure used to normalize the weights. Finally, the last column conveys the information about a method's capability to account for correlation (corr.) between -values.