Re: st: Meta-Analysis of Hazard Ratios and Confidence Intervals

["Roger B. Newson" <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>]

Hazard ratios have weighted geometric means, which are calculated by 
-metan- in exactly the same way as weighted geometric means for odds 
ratios, with the same choice between the fixed-effect and 
randomly-variable effect methods.
An alternative possibility might be to do meta-analyses using the SSC 
packages -eclplot-, -parmhet-, and -parmest- (which has a -metaparm- 
module for this purpose). These offer the user the additional choice of 
a nonrandomly-variable-effect meta-analysis (as well as the fixed-effect 
and randomly-variable-effect options). However, -metan- can provide a 
more instant solution, if Belinda is in a hurry.
Best wishes

Roger

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On 19/09/2012 05:19, Belinda Butcher wrote:
> I had read this, but am unsure what to do with the confidence intervals, all the examples I have seen calculate the logodds and selogodds basically from the 2x2 table (which I don't have)?
>
> Suggestions?
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> Belinda Butcher BSc(Hons) MBiostat PhD
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> On 19/09/2012, at 2:12 PM, JVerkuilen (Gmail) wrote:
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> > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Belinda Butcher
> > <bbutcher@writesourcemedical.com.au> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am conducting a meta-analysis of some cancer data using the hazard ratio for overall survival and the upper and lower 95% confidence intervals.
> > Usually meta-analyses of a ratio estimator like a hazard ratio,
> > relative risk or odds ratio are better conducted on the log scale.
> >
> >
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