df.IRR: Meta-analysis exploring adverse events of smoking.

df.IRRR Documentation

Meta-analysis exploring adverse events of smoking.

Description

Fictitious dataset of a meta-analysis of prospective cohorts assessing adverse effects of smoking on one binary outcome.

Usage

df.IRR

Format

The dataset contains the following variables:

meta_review name of the first author of the meta-analysis.
factor name of the factor (only one factor is included).
author first study author of the individual studies
year year of publication of the individual studies.
measure type of effect size (IRR).
value IRR value.
ci_lo lower bound of the 95% confidence interval.
ci_up upper bound of the 95% confidence interval.
n_cases number of cases (sum of the number of cases in the exposed and non-exposed
groups).
n_cases_exp number of cases in the exposed group.
n_cases_nexp number of cases in the non-exposed group.
time total person-time at risk (sum of the person-time at risk in the exposed and
non-exposed groups).
time_exp person-time at risk in the exposed group.
time_nexp person-time at risk in the non-exposed group.

Source

No source, the data are entirely fictitious


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