Hello experts!

Quick question. How to make the forest plots for meta-analytic results of AES-SDM? I was questioned by the reviewer to report the forest plots, and I don't know how to deal with it.

Your help and advice would be much appreciated!

Jeanne

Dear Jeanne

With AES-SDM you cannot perform the forest plot. You shoudl extract the mask of the signigficant peaks, and the use tha mask to exctract the values for each study. Then, with this data you can use another software like R, to make the forest plot.

Kind regards, 
Lydia

Dear Lydia,

As you said, one can extract the mask of the signigficant peaks and use R to generate forest plot. But in this way, we cannot guarantee the overall effect in the forest plot is still significant, right? Because in AES-SDM, the significance was estimate by randomization rather than the significance directly derived from random-effect analysis such as R "metafor", right?

Best,
Feng

Originally posted by Lydia Fortea:

Hi Feng

Did you extract only the initial effect size (corresponding to the row of "study_I00000" in the report) or all the data in the report(plus those obtained after imputation) when you plotted the forest plot?

Best

Yi