Re: st: Problems with producing an acceptable Forest plot

["Roger B. Newson" <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>]

You don't say what version of -meta- you are using, or what version of 
Stata you are using. However, I suspect that you are using an 
out-of-date meta-analysis program, especially if its name is -meta- and 
not -metan-, and if your Stata version is recent enough to have a 
graphics editor. You should probably download an up-to-date version of 
-metan-, which (as I understand it) can be found by typing, in Stata,

net sj 9-2 sbe24_3

and installing the required packages.

A possible alternative might be to download the -parmest-, -parmhet- and 
-eclplot- packages from SSC, and to use the -metaparm- module of 
-parmest-, together with -parmhet- and -eclplot-, to do a customized 
meta-analysis. However, -metan- usually gives a more instant solution 
for most of the users, most of the time.

I hope this helps.

Best wishes

Roger


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On 03/08/2012 14:20, ThomasStata wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> I'm urgently in need of help. After days of search and talkms with so called
> experts I'm still as smart as before.:-(
>
> I'm doing a meta-analysis with the meta-command like this:
>
> "meta  var1  se_var1, graph (r) id(region) cline xline (0.06,0.075) fmult(3)
> b2title (Prevalences) xlab (0.050, 0.055, 0.060,
> 0.066,0.07,0.075,0.08,0.085,0.09,0.095)"
>
> But the produced forest plot is not acceptable. The graph editor does not
> work for this kind of plot. And nobody knew why this is like this. Can you
> help me with that?
>
> And the biggrest problem for me is now that the regions are anumber of about
> 100. That means, that 100 regions on the x-axis is completely impossible to
> show my professors, it does not fit on one A4-page, so besides some graphic
> optimizations I of course need to cut the plot, make two or more parts of
> it. Can anyone please help me?
>
> Thank you very much in advance.
>
> Thomas
>
>
>
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