Re: st: meta-analysis with correlation coefficients

[John Antonakis <john.antonakis@unil.ch>]

Thank Jonathan and Nick.
Best,
J.

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On 14.06.2010 13:53, Nick Cox wrote:
> A Stata-based tutorial survey of the transformation referred to here was
> given in 
>
> SJ-8-3  pr0041  .  Speaking Stata: Corr. with confidence, Fisher's z
> revisited
>         (help corrci, corrcii if installed) . . . . . . . . . . . .  N.
> J. Cox
>         Q3/08   SJ 8(3):413--439
>         reviews Fisher's z transformation and its inverse, the
>         hyperbolic tangent, and reviews their use in inference
>         with correlations
>
> Nick 
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 
>
> Jonathan Sterne
>
> You would simply need to use the usual formula for the standard error of
>
> Fisher's transformation for the correlation coefficient (1/sqrt(n-3)),
> then 
> use metan on the transformed correlations and their standard errors,
> then 
> transform the summary estimate and 95% CI back to the original scale.
>
> John Antonakis <john.antonakis@unil.ch>
>
>   
> > Does anyone know of a Stata user-written ado file that does
> > meta-analysis with correlation coefficients as inputs (and not only
> > means and SDs)?
> >     
>
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