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Re: st: formatting forest plots in meta-analysis


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: formatting forest plots in meta-analysis
Date   Wed, 28 Aug 2013 00:30:14 +0100

If you mean the -xlabel()- you can always insist on exactly what you want e.g.

0.25 "0.25" 0.5 "0.5"

and so forth. See -help axis label options-.
Nick
[email protected]


On 28 August 2013 00:21, Welling, Roberta@OEHHA
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I want to use some STATA forest plots in a paper and have found it both tedious and imprecise to try to edit them as pictures using the Paint program. In particular, I want to control the number of decimal places in the weights that show up on the graphs. I have tried to find this information online and have so far been unsuccessful.
>
> The command I'm using to run the meta-analysis and produce the forest plot is:
> metan logor selogor, eform xlabel(0.25, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 5, 10) force xtick(0.75, 1.25, 1.75, 2.25) effect(Odds ratio) label(namevar=id)
>
> Is it possible to format these numbers in the command line? If so, how?
>
> Robbie Welling
> Research Scientist
> Community Assessment and Research Section
> Air, Community and Environmental Research Branch
> Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
> (510) 622-3152
> [email protected]
>
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