Dear Statalist,
I have noticed that when attempting to bootstrap the metan (version
1.86) user command with the "or" odds ratio option the following error
message is returned.
option or not allowed
r(198);
This does not happen for either the "rr" or "rd" metan options whose
returned statistics can be bootstrapped. The bootstrap command appears
to interpret the "or" as a logical or operator (which can be denoted by
|).
To bootstrap metan with the "or" option I have placed it within a
program.
program callmetan
metan cases_treated notcase_treated cases_control notcase_control, ///
label(namevar=id) randomi nograph or
end
It is then possible to use the program with the bootstrap command.
bootstrap ES=r(ES) tau2=r(tau2), reps(100): callmetan
Thanks to Dr. Alex Sutton for assistance with this problem.
Best regards,
Tom Palmer
PhD student,
Dept. of Health Sciences,
University of Leicester
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