cc_ex: Case-control data on alcohol and breast cancer risk

In dosresmeta: Multivariate Dose-Response Meta-Analysis

Description

The dataset reports the summarized dose-response results from a case-control study on alcohol and breast cancer, first presented by Rohan and McMichael.

Format

A data frame with 4 observations on the following 10 variables:

gday	label for exposure levels.
dose	assigned dose 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.
crudeor	unadjusted odds ratios for each exposure level.
adjrr	adjusted odds ratios for each exposure level.
lb	lower bound for the confidence limits of the adjusted odds ratios.
ub	upper bound for the confidence limits of the adjusted odds ratios.
logrr	natural logarithm of the adjusted odds ratios.

Author(s)

Alessio Crippa, <[e-mail]>

References

Rohan, T. E., McMichael, A. J. (1988). Alcohol consumption and risk op breast cancer. International journal of cancer, 41(5), 695-699.

Greenland, S., Longnecker, M. P. (1992). Methods for trend estimation from summarized dose-response data, with applications to meta-analysis. American journal of epidemiology, 135(11), 1301-1309.

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