Plotting weights in meta-analysis

[Paula Iso-Markku]

Hello,

I need to plot the study weights in forest plot. I am using the following command to create a forest plot, but the weights of the individual studies are not plotted on the graph as sizes of the boxes as I would like to.

metan lnor lnlci lnuci, eform effect(RR) random lcols(Publication) boxsca(0) textsize(100) xlabel(0.0625, 0.125,0.25, 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16) force forestplot(spacing(1))

How can I get the weights of individual studies to show on the plot (I can see the numeric values, but they are not plotted in the actual graph as sizes of boxes)?

[David Fisher]

Firstly, apologies for the late response to this, I hope this is still helpful.

Could you elaborate on what you would like to see? By default, the individual study weights are presented in a column of text to the right of the plot, and the boxes will be sized relative to each other in the same proportions as the weights.

It might be easier to upload an image of your plot, possibly annotated using Paint or similar?

Many thanks,

David.

[Paula Iso-Markku]

Thank you for your kind answer and I am so sorry I did not notice it until now! The paper was accepted with the figures unchanged in this regard. But I did not realize the meaning of the boxes. This will help me in the future! Thank you so much!

Paula