st: Using the metan command for continuous data with regression coefficient estimates

[Jonathan Sterne <Jonathan.Sterne@bristol.ac.uk>]

Hi - yes this is fine - you simply enter the data as the regression 
coefficient and its standard error from each study. You can find an example 
in the metan documentation.

Best wishes

Jonathan

--On 23 September 2009 02:33 -0400 statalist-digest 
<owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> wrote:

> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:12:25 +0100
> From: Miranda Kim <mk@mrc.soton.ac.uk>
> Subject: st: Using the metan command for continuous data with regression
> coefficient estimates
>
> Hello,
> I am looking into using the meta-analysis commands in Stata but am very
> new to this, and would be very grateful for some guidance on the
> following...
> Is it possible to use metan when the statistics for individual studies
> are regression coefficients, rather than mean differences which seems to
> be the default?
> Many thanks for your help,
> Miranda




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