dat.Berkey1995 {MetaStan}

Trials investigating effectiveness of the BCG vaccine against TB

Description

A dataset containing the results from 13 trials examining the efficacy of Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine against tuberculosis (TB).

Usage

dat.Berkey1995

Format

A data frame with following coloumns

Trial

Trial number

r1

number of TB events in treatment arm

n1

number of subjects in treatment arm

r2

number of TB events in control arm

n2

number of subjects in control arm

Latitude

absolute latitude of the study location

publication

author and date

Source

Berkey, C.S., Hoaglin, D.C., Mosteller, F. and Colditz, G.A., 1995. A random-effects regression model for meta-analysis. Statistics in medicine, 14(4), pp.395-411