Lynne, you can change the namevar option. Here's an example:
metan var1 var2 var3 var4, label(namevar=yourfieldname)
At 10:18 AM 8/1/2005, you wrote:
Greetings Statalites!
Does anyone know how to change the automatic defaults for meta-analysis
graphs so
that I could get a variable that has authors as text instead of the
automatic "study 1,2,3,4,.."?
Lynne
Best wishes,
Michael
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