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Re: st: FW: combining mortality rates and producing associated forestplots
From
Eddie Hulten <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: FW: combining mortality rates and producing associated forestplots
Date
Wed, 23 May 2012 15:35:07 -0400
Hi Ann,
You should be able to do this with "metan." the default forest plots display individual and pooled estimates. I am not sure I understand the data you have available, but it sounds like you have enough. The help file for metan may assist you to structure the data.
Eddie Hulten
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On May 23, 2012, at 1:07 PM, "Fitzmaurice, A.E." <[email protected]> wrote:
> My apologies I meant forest plots not funnel plots
>
> Thanks
>
> Ann
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fitzmaurice, A.E.
> Sent: 23 May 2012 17:59
> To: '[email protected]'
> Subject: combining mortality rates and producing associated funnel plots
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> Good afternoon
>
> A colleague of mine is producing a systematic review on , verbal autopsy studies to help identify deaths due to non communicable diseases in pregnant women and women of reproductive age. There is therefore just the estimates ( and possibly the sample size that the estimate was derived from and confidence interval). What she would like to do is to combine the mortality rates and produce an associated funnel plot of each of the study results and the combined result. She has looked at using the meta analysis within stata but is not sure if this is the correct procedure to use, as she has used meta anlaysis before but only with a control and intervention group,
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> Can someone advise if it is possible to do what she wants to do in stata??? And if not suggest an alternative
>
> Thanks in advance ann
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