Altering proportions to percentages in forest plot

[Karin van Os]

Hello all,

I have a question and was wondering if someone could help me with it. It would be greatly appreciated!

I am making a forest plot of prevalence rates in Stata 18. This resulted in the following code:

meta forestplot _id  Population _plot _esci, subgroup(Setting) prevalence nooverall noohetstats noohomtest noosigtest nogsigtests nogwhomtests noghetstats nogbhomtests nogmarkers nonotes scheme(s2color) bodyopts(justification(left))

The forest plot is looking how I want to, but I would prefer to report the proportions times a 100 (0.44 becomes 44.1 for example). How do I code this?

In metaprop I used the command power(2), but option power() is not allowed.
Then I found the option of eform_option(string), but I can't find an example on how to write the string and I only end up with invalid 'eform_option. For example, if I try eform_option("prevalence" scale(100))
Does anyone know how to make this happen/what command to give?


Background: In my data-file I include multiple studies. I extracted number of participants and number of diagnoses. Stata calculates the proportions/prevalences and CI.

Thank you in advance for your help!

Karin

[Andrew Musau]

The -prevalence- option provides proportions. The -scale()- suboption is allowed when used with the -transform(invftukey)- option.

help meta forestplot

webuse metaespropset, clear
local opts nooverall noohetstats noohomtest noosigtest nogsigtests nogwhomtests noghetstats nogbhomtests nogmarkers nonotes scheme(s2color) bodyopts(justification(left))

meta forestplot, prevalence `opts'
meta forestplot, transform(invftukey, scale(100)) `opts'