Re: st: meta command and _result( )

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

The values in _result() are of little use as they're just the results from 
the last -summarize- command that happened inside -meta- (which happens to 
be summarizing the random-effects weights).

The results from -meta- are stored in the global macros S_1 to S_15. -meta- 
was written under Stata version 5 and this was a common way to save results 
then. They are documented in Stata Technical Bulletin 38 (7/97 pp.9--14; 
STB Reprints Vol 7, pp.100--106). However if you type -macro list- after 
your -meta- command then it's fairly straightforward to work out what's 
what by comparing the outputs of the two. The random-effects estimate and 
its standard error are in S_7 and S_8.

Hope that helps,
Roger.


--On 16 December 2005 11:14 +0000 Joanna Carrington <jcarring@sgul.ac.uk> 
wrote:


> Dear Stata users,
>
> I'm using the meta command and would like to obtain some of the numbers
> given in the output.  A colleague has discovered that some numbers can be
> displayed using
>
> di _result( )
>
> I have managed to get an output for numbers (in the brackets) from 1-6.
> Could anyone explain what these are, how this numbering system works and
> if there are any other possible numbers I can obtain please?  Essentially
> I would like the random effects estimate and it's standard error but am
> curious about any other numbers I can obtain.
>
> Thank you for your help,
>
> Joanna Carrington
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