cervical {MVPBT}

Scheidler et al. (1997)'s cervical cancer data

Description

Dataset of a meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy for radiological evaluation of lymph node metastases in patients with cervical cancer.

Usage

data(cervical)

Format

A data frame with 44 rows and 8 variables

• id: identification number

• author: The first author name of the corresponding study

• year: The published year of the corresponding study

• method: The diagnostic method; 1=CT (computed tomography), 2=LAG (lymphangiography), 3=MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)

• TP: A vector of the number of true positives (TP)

• FP: A vector of the number of false positives (FP)

• FN: A vector of the number of false negatives (FN)

• TN: A vector of the number of true negatives (TN)

References

Scheidler, J., Hricak, H., Yu, K. K., Subak, L., and Segal, M. R. (1997). Radiological evaluation of lymph node metastases in patients with cervical cancer. A meta-analysis. JAMA 278: 1096-1101.

Reitsma, J. B., Glas, A. S., Rutjes, A. W., Scholten, R. J., Bossuyt, P. M., and Zwinderman, A. H. (2005). Bivariate analysis of sensitivity and specificity produces informative summary measures in diagnostic reviews. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 58: 982-990. doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2005.02.022