meta forestplot: Option to change column heading text

[Bruce Weaver]

I am using the following code to generate a forest plot after using meta summarize to meta-analyze proportions (new in Stata 18):

meta forestplot, scheme(s2mono) noosigtest ///
title("Relapse (any type)")  name(Fig2a, replace) ///
transform("Proportion":invlogit)

The plot looks good, the heading over the second column is "Number of successes". But the events are relapses, so I don't want to call them successes! I know there must be an option to change the text in the column headings, but I have not found it yet. Can anyone point me in the right direction or provide an example? Thanks.


PS- The new default graphics scheme in Stata 18 is stcolor. I see no stmono option, which is why I used s2mono in my code above. For bubble plots, on the other hand, I like s1mono better than s2mono. But I am left wondering why there is no stmono!

[Andrew Musau]

I do not have Stata 18, but in previous versions the following can be used to change the column titles.

meta forestplot, columnopts(_data, supertitle(Whatever1 Whatever2))

See example in https://www.statalist.org/forums/for...m-group-labels.

[Bruce Weaver]

Thanks Andrew Musau. I was able to tweak that to get what I needed--I also had to remove a supertitle.

meta forestplot, noosigtest ///
title("Relapse (any type)")  ///
transform("Proportion":invlogit) ///
columnopts(_data, supertitle("") title(Events   N))

Cheers,
Bruce