(I haven't noticed that I got a personal email by Awais - find below my reply) Awais, As expected this is a rounding problem and you can do nothing about it but get more precise estimates (which are probably not available). The distances between lower and upper CI limit to the log hazard ratio are different (due to rounding to two digits): lnHR = log(1.93) lowHR = log(1.23) uppHR = log(3.00) lnHR - lowHR uppHR - lnHR The standard error is approximated from half the distance between lower and upper 95% CI: (uppHR - lowHR) / (2 * qnorm(0.975)) meta::metagen(lnHR, lower = lowHR, upper = uppHR)$seTE Which results in the minor shift of the confidence limits: meta::metagen(lnHR, lower = lowHR, upper = uppHR, sm = "HR") Best wishes, Guido
[R-meta] Need suggestion on forest plot results
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