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dat.curtin2002R Documentation

Studies on Potassium Supplementation to Reduce Diastolic Blood Pressure

Description

Results from 21 cross-over studies evaluating the effect of potassium supplementation to reduce diastolic blood pressure.

Usage

dat.curtin2002

Format

The data frame contains the following columns:

author character first author
year character year of publication
N integer total sample size
mean numeric mean difference in diastolic blood pressure
SE numeric standard error
corr numeric within-patient correlation

Details

Results from 21 cross-over studies evaluating the effect of potassium supplementation to reduce diastolic blood pressure (Curtin et al., 2002, Table II).

This data set is used as an example in Schwarzer et al. (2015), Chapter 2.

Concepts

raw mean differences

Author(s)

Guido Schwarzer, guido.schwarzer@uniklinik-freiburg.de, https://github.com/guido-s/

Source

Curtin, F., Altman, D. G., & Elbourne, D. (2002). Meta-analysis combining parallel and cross-over clinical trials. I: Continuous outcomes. Statistics in Medicine, 21(15), 2131–2144. ⁠https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.1205⁠

References

Schwarzer, G., Carpenter, J. R., & Rücker, G. (2015). Meta-analysis with R. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

Examples

### Show first five studies
head(dat.curtin2002, 5)

## Not run: 
### Load meta package
suppressPackageStartupMessages(library("meta"))

### Use DerSimonian-Laird estimator (which was the default in meta in the year 2015).
### Furthermore, print meta-analysis results with two digits.
oldset <- settings.meta(method.tau = "DL", digits = 2)

### Conduct meta-analysis
mg2 <- metagen(mean, SE, studlab = paste(author, year),
               data = dat.curtin2002, sm = "MD")
mg2

### Use previous settings
settings.meta(oldset)

## End(Not run)

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