Can any one tell that interpretation of beta cofficient in the meta-regression analysis. I am getting the value of coefficient is 1.90. I will be grateful if any one help
It depends on what type of regression you are running. If it is for a continuous variable than you can interpret this as a one unit increase in this variable increases the outcome by 1.90 points. If you are using a logistic regression then this value indicates that odds ratio, etc. Please specify what model type you are using and what the outcome variable is.
thanks for your reply. It is meta regression and outcome variable is in binary form improved and not improved and independent variable are two group treatment and control. There are six studies in mryaregression and data of route of intervention were extracted and adjusted for it in meta regression. The value I am getting for beta coefficient is 1.90, I checked other published article in meta regression beta value which lies in decimals like 0.023 etc. I am bit confused whether I am getting the true values thanks
I don't know which program you are using, but in Stata the user-written metareg program will provide a coefficient (as opposed to the odds ratios or log-odds, etc.). So this may certainly lead to problems of interpretation if you are inputting the outcome as odds ratios and then you are getting a coefficient in return. The way around that (at least in Stata) is to specify eform to output the exponentiated form of the coefficients.
Thank you sir for your reply. I am using Stata software. Thank again for ur reply
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