Re: st: Stata 13 wishlist

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

A possible bonus, if Stata decided to buy out -metan-, is that the 
results saved by -metan- in -r()- might finally be publicized in the 
on-line help. At present, these results exist, but are unpublicized. 
This is IMHO a great pity, because I am sure a lot of users might like 
to store these results somewhere other than in the graphics output 
and/or the Stata log. (Apart from just me. I found these saved results 
VERY useful when mutually certifying -metan- with my own meta-analysis 
programs, which can be downloaded from SSC as part of the -parmest- and 
-parmhet- packages, and which save the same results in resultssets.)
Best wishes

Roger

Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
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On 07/01/2013 16:23, Ronan Conroy wrote:
> >
> There are a number of areas where I think Statacorp should 'buy out' the developer. Chief among these is meta-analysis. A quick search of the literature reveals that Stata is more or less tied with RevMan (the Cochrane Collaboration's dedicated software) for frequency of citation in meta analytic papers, despite the fact that all of the meta analytic routines in Stata are user-written. Time to bring them under the hood, I think, and integrate them under a common command syntax.
>
> Were I Statacorp, I would also buy out Nick Cox's -stripplot-, which is a real swiss army knife, as opposed to the bocky little gadget sold in gift shops.
>
> Ronán Conroy
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> Associate Professor
> Division of Population Health Sciences
> Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
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> Dublin 2
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