Intervention Meta-Analysis Using STATA Software

Meta-analysis in Stata using gllamm.

There are several user-written programs for performing meta-analysis in Stata (Stata Statistical Software: College Station, TX: Stata Corp LP). These include metan, metareg, mvmeta, and glst. However, there are several cases for which these programs do not suffice. For instance, there is no software for performing univariate meta-analysis with correlated estimates, for multilevel or hierarchica...

Network meta-analysis: application and practice using Stata

This review aimed to arrange the concepts of a network meta-analysis (NMA) and to demonstrate the analytical process of NMA using Stata software under frequentist framework. The NMA tries to synthesize evidences for a decision making by evaluating the comparative effectiveness of more than two alternative interventions for the same condition. Before conducting a NMA, 3 major assumptions-similar...

Graphical Tools for Network Meta-Analysis in STATA

Network meta-analysis synthesizes direct and indirect evidence in a network of trials that compare multiple interventions and has the potential to rank the competing treatments according to the studied outcome. Despite its usefulness network meta-analysis is often criticized for its complexity and for being accessible only to researchers with strong statistical and computational skills. The eva...

A Handbook of Statistical Analysis Using Stata

Bayesian Analysis in Stata using WinBUGS

WinBUGS is a program for Bayesian model fitting by Gibbs sampling. WinBUGS has very limited facilities for data handling while Stata has no routines for Bayesian analysis, and as a result there is a lot to be gained by running Stata and WinBUGS in combination. A set of ado files are presented that enable data to be processed in Stata, passed to WinBUGS for model fitting and the results read bac...