Forest Plot for visualisation of multiple odds ratios

A function, named blobbogram, which produces forest plots from a text file containing point estimates and confidence intervals

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This function takes a tab separated file with headings

name OR L95 U95,

produces a publication-ready Forest Plot, and saves the result as a .fig for manual tweaking and a high resolution .png.. This function can also deal with splitting the forest plot under subheadings using a row of NAs. See examples for details. Contains options for plotting with a linear or log scale.

This function was originally written for plotting Forest Plots of logistic regression analyses from Stata. Uploaded here as it might benefit someone else.

Example using file in zip:
blobbogram('example heading.txt','scale','log','title','Forest Plot for many Studies')
Will plot a Forest Plot for the data in 'example heading.txt' on a log scale.

Cite As

Harry Green (2026). Forest Plot for visualisation of multiple odds ratios (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/71020-forest-plot-for-visualisation-of-multiple-odds-ratios), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

General Information

MATLAB Release Compatibility

  • Compatible with any release

Platform Compatibility

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux
Version Published Release Notes Action
1.0.0