bmi_rc: Four case-control studies on the relation between Body Mass...

In dosresmeta: Multivariate Dose-Response Meta-Analysis

Description

The dataset reports the summarized dose-response results from four cases-control studies on the relation Body Mass Index and renal cell cancer

Format

A data frame with 33 observations on the following 13 variables:

id	id of the studies included in the analysis.
author	names of the first author and year of publication.
type	code for study design.
interval	intervals for the categories of bmi.
bmi	assigned bmi levels.
case	number of cases for each exposure level.
control	number of controls for each exposure level.
n	total number of subjects for each exposure level.
or	adjusted odds ratios for each exposure level.
lb_or	lower bound for the confidence limits of the adjusted odds ratios.
ub_or	upper bound for the confidence limits of the adjusted odds ratios.
logor	natural logarithm of the adjusted odds ratios.
se_logor	standard error for the logarithm of the adjusted odds ratios.

Author(s)

Alessio Crippa, <[e-mail]>

References

Liu, Q., Cook, N. R., Bergstrom, A., Hsieh, C. C. (2009). A two-stage hierarchical regression model for meta-analysis of epidemiologic nonlinear dose-response data. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 53(12), 4157-4167.

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