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st: metan, labbe and metacum updates
Dear Stata users
Thanks to Kit Baum, updated versions of the metan and metacum packages are
now available on the SSC.
The metacum package has been updated to version 9 graphics, and now calls
metan, allowing new options and flexibility in the data specification. The
syntax is somewhat different from previous versions, and now very similar
to that of metan.
The metan package has an updated L'Abbe graph command (labbe), also with
version 9 graphics. Syntax and options are identical, with some additions
for fine-tuning the graphical display. Note that the funnel command has now
been removed, as this is outdated: metafunnel has better display
capabilities and more options.
Some minor changes have been made to the metan command: there is now an
option dp(#) which allows the user to set the number of decimal places that
estimates are displayed with. There is also a small add-on program that
calculates a confidence interval for I^2- type i2ci after running metan to
display this. Finally a small bug that caused xsize() and ysize() to cause
problems with other options (e.g., titles) has been corrected (thanks to
Ian White).
To (re-)install the packages described above, type:
ssc install metan, replace
ssc install metacum, replace
ssc install metafunnel, replace
Please let us know if you discover any bugs, or have any suggestions for
improvement, which are always welcome.
Best wishes,
Ross Harris, Roger Harbord and Jonathan Sterne
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Ross Harris
Department of Social Medicine
University of Bristol
+44 (0)117 928 7338
[email protected]
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