The on-line help for -metareg- is, contrary to your 
assertion, full and detailed and it includes four references to 
published literature. Those are surely your next port of call. 
Nick 
[email protected] 
P.S. The spelling is "Stata", not "STATA". 
Long Nguyen
 
> I'm a new user of STATA and trying to perform a meta 
> regression.  I would
> appreciate some detail instruction and examples or tutorials 
> that can help
> me do meta regression using this new tool.  I have the 
> Getting Started..
> Manual and installed the metareg module; however, the online help file
> offered only limited information.
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