You are between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea here.
-serrbar- is a bit of an historical hangover. It is not
a general command for plotting results with errors, but
just a codification of one recipe. In particular, horizontal
alignment is wired in.
In the absence of anything meta to your satisfaction,
doing it yourself appears indicated.
Nick
[email protected]
Garrard, Wendy M.
> I am having trouble producing a custom << serrbar >> but cannot find
> instructions for how to display the features I need. I have looked in
> the manuals, help files, and Statalist archives.
>
> (1) make the graph vertical (default display is horizontal)
> (2) align the case/marker labels (study ID) on either the
> left or right
> side of the graph
> (3) add one or two columns alongside the labels containing (a) effect
> size and (b) sample size.
>
> I am using the serrbar to create a forest plot of 32 effect
> sizes for a
> meta-analysis. I am aware of the forest plots bundled with some of the
> user-written meta-analysis commands, but they do not meet my needs
> either, and seem less flexible for customizing than serrbar.
> I would be
> happy to use either approach, just so it yields the graph I need.
>
> The graph I am trying to emulate was done with software called
> Comprehensive Meta-analysis. The "ideal" graph is formatted something
> like below.
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> -------------------
> Citation Effect N total -2.00 -1.00 0.00
> 1.00 2.00
>
> Bones & Smith 1999 .203 26 | | |
> ---*--|- |
> Jones 2003 .450 235 | |
> |--*-- | |
> ...
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> -------------------
>
> Thanks in advance for advice as to what SE or forest plot is the most
> customizable.
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