soyMeta {EValue}

A meta-analysis on soy intake and breast cancer risk (Trock et al., 2006)

Description

A meta-analysis of observational studies (12 case-control and six cohort or nested case-control) on the association of soy-food intake with breast cancer risk. Data are from Trock et al.'s (2006) Table 1. This dataset was used as the applied example in Mathur & VanderWeele (2020a).

Usage

soyMeta

Format

An object of class data.frame with 20 rows and 3 columns.

Details

The variables are as follows:

• author Last name of the study's first author.

• est Point estimate on the log-relative risk or log-odds ratio scale.

• var Variance of the log-relative risk or log-odds ratio.

References

Trock BJ, Hilakivi-Clarke L, Clark R (2006). Meta-analysis of soy intake and breast cancer risk. Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Mathur MB & VanderWeele TJ (2020a). Sensitivity analysis for unmeasured confounding in meta-analyses. Journal of the American Statistical Association.