Hi all
New stata user and loving it. Slightly aging medic trying to do a meta-analysis on my area of interest. Its very simple just rate of infection from the literature in my area rather than odds ratio for an intervention.
However I am really struggling with getting stata to do a funnel plot. I have a list of infection rates and CI 95% +_ but i cannot get the Exp(theta) drop down box option to work. I expect I am missing something very basic to do with what Exp(theta) means. I did a log of the infection rate for each study and that failed as well.
I have resorted to a basic scatterplot numbers in study y versus x infection rate which will do but am concerned that if i come across a reviewer who wants a 'proper' funnel plot with the lines drawn in i will be struggling.
Perhaps Chuck could do one of his calming videos on meta commands?
Anyway any comments would be much appreciated.
regards
harvey smith
fremantle
Australia
New stata user and loving it. Slightly aging medic trying to do a meta-analysis on my area of interest. Its very simple just rate of infection from the literature in my area rather than odds ratio for an intervention.
However I am really struggling with getting stata to do a funnel plot. I have a list of infection rates and CI 95% +_ but i cannot get the Exp(theta) drop down box option to work. I expect I am missing something very basic to do with what Exp(theta) means. I did a log of the infection rate for each study and that failed as well.
I have resorted to a basic scatterplot numbers in study y versus x infection rate which will do but am concerned that if i come across a reviewer who wants a 'proper' funnel plot with the lines drawn in i will be struggling.
Perhaps Chuck could do one of his calming videos on meta commands?
Anyway any comments would be much appreciated.
regards
harvey smith
fremantle
Australia
