Re: st: Problems with producing an acceptable Forest plot

[Thomas Stein <thomasstein2000@yahoo.de>]

Am 03.08.2012 15:46, schrieb Roger B. Newson:
> 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 out-of-date meta-analysis program, especially if its name is -meta- 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
>
>
> Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
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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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Thank you for your quick reply. Well, I'm using Stata-version 10.1 
(2010). Both commands are available, but I use meta, because many 
options are not possible in metan, e.g., graph(r), cline, xline and so 
on....

Okay, but I will try the other commands you recommended to me, too. 
Thanks for your help,

Best, Thomas
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