Notice: On April 23, 2014, Statalist moved from an email list to a forum, based at statalist.org.
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
st: RE: RE: Estout for metan?
From
Roger Harbord <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
st: RE: RE: Estout for metan?
Date
Thu, 5 Aug 2010 16:43:03 +0100
An alternative solution should be possible using -statsby-. You'd need
to first append all your study data into a single large file and
create an extra ID number to indicate which meta-analysis each study
belongs to (you could probably do that with a single very long command
of the form -append using file1 file2...file200, generate(metaid)- ).
You should then be able to use -statsby- to automatically loop over
the meta-analyses and collect the various results you want that
-metan- returns in r().
Roger.
--
Roger Harbord
http://www.epi.bris.ac.uk/staff/rharbord.htm
On 30 July 2010 17:06, Megan Fesinmeyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you so much for this idea! I will give it a try. I had sort of given up yesterday, and spent the day reformatting my data to perform meta-analysis in METAL software. I'd much rather use Stata, so it would be great if I can get this approach to work.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tiago V. Pereira
> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 1:14 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: RE: Estout for metan?,
>
> Megan,
>
> A very straightforward solution is to create a folder with all your
> meta-analyses numbered from 1 to 200, say, meta_analysis_1.dta,
> meta_analysis_2.dta, and so on. Then, loop over them storing the results
> as locals. Finally, create a single file will all results and use
> -outsheet- to get a xls file (tab-delimited by default).
>
>
> An very simple example is presented below.
>
>
> All you need to modify is the path to find your files. If you use windows
> the paths are like
>
> "C:\myfiles\meta_analysis_`i'.dta"
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Copy-paste tasks are really prone to errors! Let me know if this simple
> code works for you. I did not check its accuracy.
>
> Tiago
>
>
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/