[Harry Su]

When I enter "describe" after the commmand "estimates use mvmeta ". The Stata output:

​describe

Contains data from http://nicolaorsini.altervista.org/data/bmi_rc.dta
  obs:            33                          BMI and renal cell cancer (Bergstr鰉 et al., 2001)
 vars:            18                          2 Feb 2012 14:09
 size:         3,432                          
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              storage   display    value
variable name   type    format     label      variable label
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id              float   %9.0g                 
author          str20   %20s                  
interval        str20   %20s                  
bmi             float   %9.0g                 
case            float   %9.0g                 
control         float   %9.0g                 
n               float   %9.0g                 
rr              float   %9.0g                 
lb              float   %9.0g                 
ub              float   %9.0g                 
studyt          float   %9.0g                 
logor           float   %9.0g                 
selogor         float   %9.0g                 
bmic            float   %9.0g                 
bmics1          float   %9.0g                 
bmics2          float   %9.0g                 
bmis1           float   %9.0g                 
bmis2           float   %9.0g                 
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Sorted by:  id
     Note:  dataset has changed since last saved

[dominicasmith]

Oh, I didn't realize you are using the data-set from the website. I looks like you have the specific variable, so it doesn't look name that is specified in the code is wrong. This is very confusing. I'm not sure I have any further suggestions at the moment. I will think about it and get back to you if I have another idea.

[Harry Su]

Thank you very much. I will think about it again and wait for your kindly replying. Thanks for your help.

[dominicasmith]

Have you made sure that you are using the updated version of mvmeta?

[Harry Su]

Thank you very much. I download this ado file from the website and finally solve this problem. Thank you very much. Indeed, it's something wrong with my old version of mvmeta. Thank you again for your kindly help. Wish to learn together in the future.

[dominicasmith]

This is great news! Good luck with your project!

[ben earnhart]

Congratulations Dominica -- you got into one heck of a tangled problem, and fixed it. Frustrating when there's no simple solution and/or the person with the problem isn't communicating well. But you did it! If there were gold stars to be had, I'd nominate you for one.

[dominicasmith]

Oh wow, thank you for your kind words and your help in guiding me towards a solution! I look forward to being part of and contributing to the Statalist community in the future!