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help for meta_dialog                                       version 1.0.4       
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Sub-menu and Dialogs for Meta-Analysis Commands (Stata Version 8 only)


Description

    Package meta_dialog provides Stata Version 8 dialog boxes (.dlg files)
    and the commands needed to create a Meta-Analysis sub-menu that contains
    the publicly available meta-analysis commands. The 14 commands included
    in this package that may be placed on the menu are: meta, metan, metap,
    metareg, metacum, funnel, metafunnel, labbe, metannt, metaninf, metaninf,
    galbr, metabias, and metatrim.

    The menu commands (shown below) are placed in your personal Stata
    profile.do file.  They create the sub-menu on the StataCorp-defined User
    menu.

    You can determine if you have defined a profile.do file by starting Stata
    and observing whether a line of the form:

        running C:\data\stata\profile.do ...

    appears on the screen as part of the initiation sequence. If it does,
    then add the commands below to that file and resave the file.  If the
    line does not appear then you have not defined a profile.  Create a plain
    text file containing the commands below, name it profile.do and save it
    somewhere in the Stata path.

    You may choose not to create the menu and run the dialogs directly from
    the Stata8 command line via the db name command.  If so,

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    command...    runs...          description...
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    db meta       meta 2.06        Meta-analysis of Effects
    db metan      metan 1.74       Meta-analysis of Binary and Continuous
    db metap      metap 2.0.0      Meta-analysis of p-values
    db metareg    metareg 1.06     Meta-analysis Regression
    db metacum    metacum 1.02     Cumulative Meta-analysis
    db funnel     funnel 1.04      Metan-based Funnel Graph
    db metafunnel metafunnel 1.02  Funnel Graph (vertical)
    db labbe      labbe 1.21       Metan-based L'abbe Graph
    db metannt    metannt 1.0      Metan-based NNT
    db metaninf   metaninf 1.0.1   Metan-based Influence Analysis
    db metainf    metainf 3.0.0    Meta-based Influence Analysis
    db galbr      galbr 2.0        Galbraith Plot for Heterogeneity
    db metabias   metabias 1.2.2   Publication Bias in Meta-analysis
    db metatrim   metatrim 1.0.5   Trim and Fill Analysis
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Menu creation commands

    Put the following commands in your profile.do (the lines are long and may
    wrap on the screen):

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if _caller() >= 8 {
  window menu clear
  window menu append submenu "stUser" "&Meta-Analysis"
  window menu append item "Meta-Analysis" "Of Binary and Continuous (meta&n)" "
> db metan"
  window menu append item "Meta-Analysis" "Of Effects (&meta)" "db meta"
  window menu append item "Meta-Analysis" "Of p-values (meta&p)" "db metap"
  window menu append item "Meta-Analysis" "Cumulative (meta&cum)" "db metacum"
  window menu append item "Meta-Analysis" "Regression (meta&reg)" "db metareg"
  window menu append item "Meta-Analysis" "Funnel Graph, metan-based (f&unnel)"
>  "db funnel"
  window menu append item "Meta-Analysis" "Funnel Graph, &vertical (metafunnel)
> " "db metafunnel"
  window menu append item "Meta-Analysis" "L'abbe Graph, metan-based (&labbe)" 
> "db labbe"
  window menu append item "Meta-Analysis" "NNT, metan-based (metann&t)" "db met
> annt"
  window menu append item "Meta-Analysis" "Influence Analysis, metan-based (met
> an&inf)" "db metaninf"
  window menu append item "Meta-Analysis" "Influence Analysis, meta-based (meta
> in&f)" "db metainf"
  window menu append item "Meta-Analysis" "Galbraith Plot for Heterogeneity (&g
> albr)" "db galbr"
  window menu append item "Meta-Analysis" "Publication Bias (meta&bias)" "db me
> tabias"
  window menu append item "Meta-Analysis" "Trim and Fill Analysis (met&atrim)" 
> "db metatrim"
  window menu refresh
}


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Notes

    Dialogs are available in Stata8 only, thus the leading if _caller() >= 8
    { and trailing } lines above are needed only if you also run Stata7, but
    leaving them in will not cause problems.

    The easiest way to capture these commands is to open this help file in
    your text editor, copy the lines, then paste them into profile.do.


Author

    Thomas J. Steichen, steichen@triad.rr.com


Also see

    Manual:  [P] dialogs; [P] window menu; [R] db