Thanks to Kit Baum, a new package -bmjcip- is now available for download
from SSC. In Stata, use the -ssc- command to do this.
The -bmjcip- command is described as below on my website. It is an
inelegant instant one-line solution to the problem of reformatting
numeric confidence intervals and P-values produced by -parmest- to a
string format as used by medical journals, so they can be output to
tables using -listtex- and pasted into a Microsoft Word table. P-values
less than 0.00001 are reformatted as X.Yx10-Z, where X and Y are digits
and Z is an integer. Unfortunately, the user must superscript the "-Z"
manually in Microsoft Word.
This problem exists because most medics are unaccustomed to seeing ALL
P-values presented in the eminently sensible %-9.1e format (ie
left-justified X.Ye-Z without any superscripting). Unfortunately, even
medical statisticians have not reached a consensus on the best way to
present P-values, never mind starting the long, hard process of
reprogramming our non-statistical colleagues. In the meantime, we need
to produce Microsoft Word tables for submission to medical journals, in
order to earn a living, so I wrote -bmjcip- to save some repetitive
code.
Best wishes
Roger
Roger Newson
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group
National Heart and Lung Institute
Imperial College London
Royal Brompton campus
Room 33, Emmanuel Kaye Building
1B Manresa Road
London SW3 6LR
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44 (0)20 7352 8121 ext 3381
Fax: +44 (0)20 7351 8322
Email: [email protected]
Web page: www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/
Departmental Web page:
http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/about/divisions/nhli/respiration/pop
genetics/reph/
Opinions expressed are those of the author, not of the institution.
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package bmjcip from http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/stata9
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TITLE
bmjcip: Format confidence intervals and P-values for medical
journals
DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
bmjcip reformats a list of numeric variables, containing
estimates,
confidence limits and (optionally) P-values, to string variables,
containing
the same values formatted for presentation in medical journals.
The new
string variables replace the old numeric variables, and have the
same names,
variable labels, and positions in the dataset. bmjcip is usually
used in
output datasets (or resultssets) produced by the parmest package,
and the
reformatted string variables are later output using the listtex
package for
input to Microsoft Word. It requires the sdecode package in order
to work.
The sdecode, parmest and listtex packages can all be downloaded
from SSC.
Author: Roger Newson
Distribution-Date: 14september2007
Stata-Version: 9
INSTALLATION FILES (click here to
install)
bmjcip.ado
bmjcip.hlp
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