Re: st: Displaying system variables after a meta-analysis using'meta'

[Roger Harbord <roger.harbord@bristol.ac.uk>]

--On 09 May 2005 17:43 +0100 Andrea Mann <am634@medschl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I have performed a meta-analysis using the 'meta' command and would like
> to outfile the odds ratio, lower confidence limit, upper confidence limit
> and fixed and random weights, for each individual study, to a raw file.
> What are the names of the system variables for the odds ratio, lower ci,
> upper ci and the weights?  I intend to generate variables from these
> system variables, collapse, and outfile.  Is that correct?
Dear Andrea,

It's probably going to be a little easier if you switch to use -metan- 
instead of -meta- as -metan- generates new variables containing the weights 
and CI limits. The most recent version of -metan- accepts the same input 
variables in the same order as -meta- i.e. effect estimates and standard 
errors. This is version 1.81 and is obtained by typing -ssc intall 
metaaggr, replace-. Full documentation including names of the variables 
left behind is available at 
<http://www.ihs.ox.ac.uk/csm/metan/metan_updates.pdf>

How you best handle the variables afterwards depends on what you want to 
use them for which you know better than us.

Best wishes,
Roger.

--
Roger Harbord
Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol
http://www.epi.bris.ac.uk


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