B. Water wrote:
... i do use meta/metan and their ancillary do's including metacum, metainf,
etc but to my knowledge 'meta-prevalence' or even 'meta-proportion or
'meta-probability' is not one that is available (seeing that essentially
prevalence is a probability or a proportion).
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It is not very clear what you mean by a meta-proportion:
a) Is it the mean prevalence in a number of descriptive studies? If yes,
how do you want to weight the contribution from the studies? If it is by
study size (N), just sum the number of cases and the Ns, and divide.
That, of course, does not deserve a specific command.
b) Is it something else?
Best,
Svend
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