Stata would faile to conduct metan, until I changed my 0 mortalities in Excel to 0.5 as a continuity correction, and exported the sheet to Stata. What can I do to prevent this to be shown in the event/total of my forest plot? Eg; event/total is shown as 0.5/4.5 than 0/5
Isn't that the matter of rejection by reviewers?
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Thank u for considering my question. I am doing a meta-analysis, using Stata software, to have forest plot of mortalities of patients. Stata does't accept 0 values until u correct values to 0.5 (conventionally known as continuity correction). I did it, and Stata gave me the forest plot. However, under events/ treatment or events/control, reveals decimals, which is not clinically meaningful. eg; when a study had 0 mortality from 5 treated patients, plot shows 0.5/4.5 (instead of 0/5).
>is it an acceptable feature?
>is this because I corrected 0s to 0.5s in Excel before exporting the sheet to Stata?
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