Fleiss1993bin: Aspirin after Myocardial Infarction

Fleiss1993binR Documentation

Aspirin after Myocardial Infarction

Description

Meta-analysis on aspirin in preventing death after myocardial infarction.

Data example in Fleiss (1993) for meta-analysis with binary outcomes.

Format

A data frame with the following columns:

study study label
year year of publication
d.asp number of deaths in aspirin group
n.asp number of observations in aspirin group
d.plac number of deaths in placebo group
n.plac number of observations in placebo group

Source

Fleiss JL (1993): The statistical basis of meta-analysis. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 2, 121–45

Examples

data(Fleiss1993bin)
metabin(d.asp, n.asp, d.plac, n.plac, data = Fleiss1993bin,
  studlab = paste(study, year), sm = "OR", random = FALSE)

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