st: Re: (No subject header)

[Phil Clayton <philclayton@internode.on.net>]

You could have a look here:
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2009-10/msg00240.html

Phil

PS Stata not STATA

On 20/04/2013, at 2:14 AM, kathryn dennick <kath_dennick@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am a registered user of STATA and I have a query that I would really like to post in statalist if that's possible at all, please? 
> 
> I am currently undertaking a systematic review of cross sectional studies investigating the prevalence of distress in diabetes. The data I have to synthesise is a simple proportion/percentage (those with distress as a proportion of the total diabetes sample). I have to to synthesise this data in a meta-analysis, and I recently attended a course where I learnt about using the metan code from the online STATA journal to conduct meta-analysis of RD, RR and OR data. I'm obviously not able to use this to undertake the meta-analysis as I don't have this type of data. I am know that in entering the data that I have as 2 columns (i.e. as those with depression and then the total sample size), STATA will not read this as a proportion as I need it to. My query is whether you are aware of any STATA command that exists which would enable me to synthesise the data I have and derive an overall proportion/percentage across the studies being reviewed. 
> 
> Would very much appreciate any advice!
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Kathryn
> 
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