Michael,
-label()- calls for suboption namevar, not namvar. Is this the problem?
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael McCulloch" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 10:18 AM
Subject: st: graphical output of metan contains fictional data in studyid
> I am experiencing difficulty with graphical output of metan.Strange
numbers
> are appearing where the study name should be, in both the text output
> results and the graphical output. I have defined four variables, resp1
> resp0 noresp1 noresp0, which are the four 2x2 cells.
>
> "Help metan" specifies that I should use the option (namvar=namvar), and
in
> my case namvar=studyid.There are some missing data in a covariate, here
> called covar, and so I specify the command for covar!=. I have tried this
> with or without any of the options or "if" command, and this is still
> happening. I have made sure that studyid is a string variable. The numbers
> which appear in the Study column of output do not represent the sort
order,
> or any of my data cells. By the way, this problem does not appear when I
> use meta.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> (my command and output follow below)
>
> metan resp1 resp0 noresp1 noresp0 if covar!=., random xlab(.1,.5,1,2,10)
> counts texts(.7) label(namvar=studyid) by(covar)
>
> Study | RR [95% Conf. Interval] % Weight
> ---------------------+---------------------------------------------------
> covar==1
> 2 | 1.159 0.761 1.764 11.83
> 7 | 1.706 1.150 2.530 13.46
> 9 | 1.189 0.853 1.657 18.99
> 11 | 1.347 0.830 2.187 8.90
> 12 | 1.316 0.954 1.814 20.27
> 13 | 1.385 0.863 2.224 9.33
> Sub-total |
> D+L pooled RR | 1.328 1.133 1.557 82.78
> ---------------------+---------------------------------------------------
> covar==2
> 14 | 1.350 0.950 1.919 16.90
> 15 | 0.333 0.026 4.268 0.32
> Sub-total |
> D+L pooled RR | 1.166 0.489 2.780 17.22
> ---------------------+---------------------------------------------------
> Overall |
> D+L pooled RR | 1.326 1.147 1.532 100.00
> ---------------------+---------------------------------------------------
>
>
> ________________________________________
> Michael McCulloch, LAc, MPH
> Doctoral Candidate, Division of Epidemiology
> University of California at Berkeley
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