Good enough. BTW, the numbers you observed were, almost certainly, the sort
order of the data at the time the display took place ...and this would not
always be the sort order of the data in your file, as internal operations
freely sort the data and may or may not restore your original sort
order. -metan-, itself, is not a "sort preserved" program.
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael McCulloch" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: st: Re: graphical output of metan contains fictional data in
studyid
> Problem solved! Thanks Tom.
>
> At 07:46 AM 7/29/2004, you wrote:
> >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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> > >
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> ________________________________________
> Michael McCulloch, LAc, MPH
> Doctoral Candidate, Division of Epidemiology
> University of California at Berkeley
>
> Research Office:
> 124 Pine Street
> San Anselmo, CA 94960-2674
> Tel (415) 407-1357
> Fax (415) 485-1065
> email [email protected]
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