'Forest-plots' or Errror bar-charts in SPSS

Posted by Laurie Petch on Sep 14, 2006; 4:50pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Forest-plots-or-Errror-bar-charts-in-SPSS-tp1070926.html

Hi,

Thanks to those who responded with very helpful messages in response to my queries about using SPSS for meta-analysis. Now I'm at the stage of reporting the results, please can anyone help me with a way of drawing up a 'forest plot' like those produced by the Cochrane RevMan software using SPSS? Perhaps someone knows an ingenious way to import SPSS data to RevMan in order to do this? Or, maybe someone has a macro to do the same thing using SPSS? Alternatively, if someone could help me draw up a simple error bar-chart in SPSS, showing the effect size with its 95% confidence interval for each study, that would also help.

Thanks,

Laurie

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Laurie Petch
Chartered Educational Psychologist (British Psychological Society)

Regina, Canada