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

[Miranda Kim <mk@mrc.soton.ac.uk>]

Dear Jonathan,
Thanks a lot for your response! I have the recently published book 
"Meta-analysis in Stata:...." but could not find the example you 
mention. However, just plugging in the regression coefficients and 
standard errors has worked just fine!
Many thanks,
Miranda

Jonathan Sterne wrote:
> 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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