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Fleiss1993bin

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", comb.random = FALSE)

meta

General Package for Meta-Analysis

v4.18-0
GPL (>= 2)
Authors
Guido Schwarzer [cre, aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6214-9087>)
Initial release
2021-03-05

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