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log: C:\Res\Meta\progs\p1.log

log type: text

opened on: 6 Apr 2002, 13:19:21

 

. *

. * This STATA program produces some standard meta-analysis.

. *

. set more 1

 

. *

. * Read in, manipulate and summarize the data set

. *

. use \res\meta\data\data1

 

. g studyn=_n

 

. label var studyn "Study Number"

 

. g tratio=gamma/segamma

 

. label var tratio "t-statistic for gamma"

 

. g pgamma=ttail(obs,tratio)

 

. label var pgamma "P-value for gamma"

 

. replace pgamma=1.e-20 if pgamma==0.

(3 real changes made)

 

. list author studyn gamma segamma

 

author studyn gamma segamma

1. Rose 1 1.21 .14

2. Engel-Rose 2 1.21 .37

3. Frankel-Rose 3 1.36 .18

4. Rose-van Wincoop 4 .91 .18

5. Glick-Rose 5 .65 .05

6. Persson 6 .506 .257

7. Rose 7 .74 .05

8. Honohan 8 .921 .4

9. Nitsch 9 .82 .27

10. Pakko-Wall 10 -.378 .529

11. Walsh-Thom 11 .098 .196

12. Melitz 12 .7 .23

13. Lopez-Cordova and Meissner 13 .716 .186

14. Silvana Tenreyro 14 .471 .316

15. Levy Yeyati 15 .5 .25

16. Nitsch 16 .62 .17

17. Flandreau and Maurel 17 1.16 .07

18. Klein 18 .5 .27

19. Estevadeoral, Frantz and Taylor 19 .293 .145

 

. d

 

Contains data from \res\meta\data\data1.dta

obs: 19

vars: 22 26 Feb 2002 08:00

size: 2,242 (95.0% of memory free)

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storage display value

variable name type format label variable label

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author str31 %31s Author

pubn str20 %20s Publication Venue

prefer float %9.0g Preferred/Best (Verbal) Estimate

gamma float %9.0g Quantitative Estimate

segamma float %9.0g Standard Error of gamma

obs float %9.0g No. Observations

nonts byte %9.0g 1 for c/s or panel (with N>>T)

studies

nocountries int %9.0g Span of Countries

noyears byte %9.0g Span of Years

postwar byte %9.0g 1 for post-WW2

roseauth byte %9.0g 1 if Rose is co-author

meanwithin float %9.0g Mean of within study estimates

sdwithin float %9.0g S.D. of within study estimates

medwithin float %9.0g Median of within study estimates

minwithin float %9.0g Min of within study estimates

maxwithin float %9.0g Max of within study estimates

countwithin byte %9.0g Number of within study estimates

trimmax float %9.0g Trimmed Max of within study

estimates

trimmin float %9.0g Trimmed Min of within study

estimates

studyn float %9.0g Study Number

tratio float %9.0g t-statistic for gamma

pgamma float %9.0g P-value for gamma

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Sorted by:

Note: dataset has changed since last saved

 

. sum

 

Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max

-------------+-----------------------------------------------------

author | 0

pubn | 0

prefer | 19 .9410526 .6867872 0 2

gamma | 19 .684579 .4177448 -.378 1.36

segamma | 19 .2241579 .121654 .05 .529

obs | 19 33448.79 66535.88 190 219558

nonts | 19 .8421053 .3746343 0 1

nocountries | 19 132.0526 78.52705 16 217

noyears | 19 22.42105 15.43559 1 50

postwar | 19 .8421053 .3746343 0 1

roseauth | 19 .3157895 .4775669 0 1

meanwithin | 19 1.010764 .8582899 .1025714 3.902115

sdwithin | 19 .2412389 .3945224 .0589924 1.831724

medwithin | 19 .8299211 .5010568 -.01 1.97

minwithin | 19 .0561579 .847103 -1.53 1.45

maxwithin | 19 6.221421 18.62448 .69 83

countwithin | 19 20.15789 20.9079 4 83

trimmax | 19 1.815211 1.037545 .69 5.44

trimmin | 19 .2118421 .773086 -1.5 1.45

studyn | 19 10 5.627314 1 19

tratio | 19 4.941714 4.927131 -.7145558 16.57143

pgamma | 19 .0660508 .1827615 1.00e-20 .7625544

 

. *

. * Perform the meta-analysis

. *

. metap pgamma, method(f)

 

Meta-analysis of p-values

 

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Method | chi2 p_value studies

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Fisher | 576.56428 1.990e-97 19

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. metap pgamma, method(ea)

 

Meta-analysis of p_values

 

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Method | . p_value studies

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Edgington, additive | . 6.150e-16 19

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. meta gamma segamma

 

Meta-analysis

 

| Pooled 95% CI Asymptotic No. of

Method | Est Lower Upper z_value p_value studies

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Fixed | 0.772 0.718 0.825 28.437 0.000 19

Random | 0.730 0.580 0.881 9.493 0.000

 

Test for heterogeneity: Q= 92.334 on 18 degrees of freedom (p= 0.000)

Moment-based estimate of between studies variance = 0.069

 

. metainf gamma segamma, id(studyn) print

 

 

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Study ommited | Coef. [95% Conf. Interval]

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1 | .75439388 .70019108 .80859673

2 | .76913375 .71581489 .8224526

3 | .75782365 .70403385 .8116135

4 | .76828462 .71449482 .82207447

5 | .82220739 .75890207 .88551271

6 | .77449644 .72102231 .8279705

7 | .78465074 .72134542 .84795606

8 | .77081323 .71751523 .82411128

9 | .7710095 .71756369 .82445532

10 | .77453578 .72129035 .82778114

11 | .78466111 .73096889 .83835328

12 | .77251315 .71896398 .82606232

13 | .7727108 .71896058 .82646096

14 | .77373576 .72036338 .82710814

15 | .77473986 .72124863 .8282311

16 | .77546382 .72159809 .82932949

17 | .70282781 .64514363 .76051193

18 | .77427357 .72082776 .82771933

19 | .7888642 .73473293 .84299552

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Combined | .77150418 .71832888 .82467948

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. metareg gamma obs, wsse(segamma)

Iteration 1: tau^2 = 0

Iteration 2: tau^2 = .01409318

Iteration 3: tau^2 = .07512375

Iteration 4: tau^2 = .09770425

 

Meta-analysis regression No of studies = 19

tau^2 method reml

tau^2 estimate = .0978

 

Successive values of tau^2 differ by less than 10^-4 :convergence achieved

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| Coef. Std. Err. z P>|z| [95% Conf. Interval]

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obs | 4.48e-08 1.16e-06 0.04 0.969 -2.22e-06 2.31e-06

_cons | .7222008 .1004021 7.19 0.000 .5254162 .9189853

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. metareg gamma segamma, wsse(segamma)

Iteration 1: tau^2 = 0

Iteration 2: tau^2 = .03010489

Iteration 3: tau^2 = .08777508

Iteration 4: tau^2 = .09033508

 

Meta-analysis regression No of studies = 19

tau^2 method reml

tau^2 estimate = .0903

 

Successive values of tau^2 differ by less than 10^-4 :convergence achieved

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| Coef. Std. Err. z P>|z| [95% Conf. Interval]

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segamma | -.9933213 .823494 -1.21 0.228 -2.60734 .6206972

_cons | .9130875 .1771052 5.16 0.000 .5659677 1.260207

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. metareg gamma roseauth, wsse(segamma)

Iteration 1: tau^2 = 0

Iteration 2: tau^2 = .02397665

Iteration 3: tau^2 = .09391623

Iteration 4: tau^2 = .07073589

Iteration 5: tau^2 = .0759793

Iteration 6: tau^2 = .0746044

Iteration 7: tau^2 = .07495284

 

Meta-analysis regression No of studies = 19

tau^2 method reml

tau^2 estimate = .0749

 

Successive values of tau^2 differ by less than 10^-4 :convergence achieved

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| Coef. Std. Err. z P>|z| [95% Conf. Interval]

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roseauth | .3770075 .1637407 2.30 0.021 .0560817 .6979334

_cons | .5869939 .1004502 5.84 0.000 .3901151 .7838727

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. metareg gamma nonts, wsse(segamma)

Iteration 1: tau^2 = 0

Iteration 2: tau^2 = .01140247

Iteration 3: tau^2 = .05984409

Iteration 4: tau^2 = .08546313

Iteration 5: tau^2 = .08589089

 

Meta-analysis regression No of studies = 19

tau^2 method reml

tau^2 estimate = .0859

 

Successive values of tau^2 differ by less than 10^-4 :convergence achieved

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| Coef. Std. Err. z P>|z| [95% Conf. Interval]

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nonts | .2387602 .2034955 1.17 0.241 -.1600836 .6376041

_cons | .5384158 .1805667 2.98 0.003 .1845115 .8923201

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. metareg gamma nocountries, wsse(segamma)

Iteration 1: tau^2 = 0

Iteration 2: tau^2 = .01458143

Iteration 3: tau^2 = .08299151

Iteration 4: tau^2 = .09447728

Iteration 5: tau^2 = .09421696

 

Meta-analysis regression No of studies = 19

tau^2 method reml

tau^2 estimate = .0942

 

Successive values of tau^2 differ by less than 10^-4 :convergence achieved

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| Coef. Std. Err. z P>|z| [95% Conf. Interval]

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nocountries | .0006362 .0010878 0.58 0.559 -.0014958 .0027682

_cons | .6421511 .1654251 3.88 0.000 .3179239 .9663784

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. metareg gamma noyears, wsse(segamma)

Iteration 1: tau^2 = 0

Iteration 2: tau^2 = .02269689

Iteration 3: tau^2 = .08865432

Iteration 4: tau^2 = .0978047

 

Meta-analysis regression No of studies = 19

tau^2 method reml

tau^2 estimate = .0977

 

Successive values of tau^2 differ by less than 10^-4 :convergence achieved

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| Coef. Std. Err. z P>|z| [95% Conf. Interval]

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noyears | -.0021466 .0056191 -0.38 0.702 -.0131599 .0088667

_cons | .7778385 .1654519 4.70 0.000 .4535587 1.102118

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. metareg gamma postwar, wsse(segamma)

Iteration 1: tau^2 = 0

Iteration 2: tau^2 = .01098566

Iteration 3: tau^2 = .06575411

Iteration 4: tau^2 = .09711704

Iteration 5: tau^2 = .09749058

 

Meta-analysis regression No of studies = 19

tau^2 method reml

tau^2 estimate = .0975

 

Successive values of tau^2 differ by less than 10^-4 :convergence achieved

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| Coef. Std. Err. z P>|z| [95% Conf. Interval]

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postwar | -.0268468 .2196513 -0.12 0.903 -.4573554 .4036619

_cons | .7457645 .1969708 3.79 0.000 .3597089 1.13182

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. *

. * Ditto but drop my observations

. *

. drop if roseauth==1

(6 observations deleted)

 

. sum

 

Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max

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author | 0

pubn | 0

prefer | 13 .7146154 .5992581 0 2

gamma | 13 .5328462 .3849768 -.378 1.16

segamma | 13 .253 .1164281 .07 .529

obs | 13 9024.077 11323.33 190 31010

nonts | 13 .9230769 .2773501 0 1

nocountries | 13 107.6923 82.72886 16 205

noyears | 13 20.76923 13.24861 1 42

postwar | 13 .7692308 .438529 0 1

roseauth | 13 0 0 0 0

meanwithin | 13 .7440238 .5284827 .1025714 1.923333

sdwithin | 13 .1662512 .0984865 .0589924 .4654206

medwithin | 13 .6945 .5040675 -.01 1.97

minwithin | 13 -.1786923 .8489415 -1.53 1.45

maxwithin | 13 1.952077 1.312218 .69 5.73

countwithin | 13 19.15385 22.51609 4 83

trimmax | 13 1.819154 1.236521 .69 5.44

trimmin | 13 -.045 .77003 -1.5 1.45

studyn | 13 12.92308 4.030334 6 19

tratio | 13 3.197564 4.202909 -.7145558 16.57143

pgamma | 13 .0964941 .2166176 1.00e-20 .7625544

 

. metap pgamma, method(f)

 

Meta-analysis of p-values

 

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Method | chi2 p_value studies

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Fisher | 202.92169 2.429e-29 13

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. metap pgamma, method(ea)

 

Meta-analysis of p_values

 

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Method | . p_value studies

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Edgington, additive | . 3.058e-09 13

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. meta gamma segamma

 

Meta-analysis

 

| Pooled 95% CI Asymptotic No. of

Method | Est Lower Upper z_value p_value studies

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Fixed | 0.802 0.708 0.895 16.785 0.000 13

Random | 0.571 0.318 0.825 4.416 0.000

 

Test for heterogeneity: Q= 63.139 on 12 degrees of freedom (p= 0.000)

Moment-based estimate of between studies variance = 0.155

 

. *

. * Clean up and Close down

. *

. drop _all

 

. log close

log: C:\Res\Meta\progs\p1.log

log type: text

closed on: 6 Apr 2002, 13:19:25

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