st: RE: Does Stata have an "exact likelihood approach " to estimate the variance of a proportion?

["Joseph Coveney" <jcoveney@bigplanet.com>]

Tiago V. Pereira wrote:

I would like to explore the method mentioned by Hamza et al (2008). The
binomial distribution of meta-analysis was preferred to model within-study
variability. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Volume 61, Issue 1, January
2008, Pages 41-51

http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0895435607001503

The authors compared an exact likelihood approach to the standard method
that approximates the within-study variability of a proportion by a normal
distribution


They comment that main packages are able to do that, indluign SAS, R AND
S-plus. Hence, is there a way to perform such analysis using Stata?

[snip]

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