dat.whiting {altmeta}

A Meta-Analysis on Adverse Events for the Comparison Cannabinoid vs. Placebo

Description

This dataset serves as an example of meta-analysis of (log) odds ratios.

Usage

data("dat.whiting")

Format

A data frame with 29 studies with the following 9 variables within each study.

y

point esimates of log odds ratios.

s2

sample variances of log odds ratios.

n00

counts of non-events in treatment group 0 (placebo).

n01

counts of events in treatment group 0.

n10

counts of non-events in treatment group 1 (cannabinoid).

n11

counts of events in treatment group 1 (cannabinoid).

n0

sample sizes in treatment group 0.

n1

sample sizes in treatment group 1.

n

total sample sizes.

Source

Whiting PF, Wolff RF, Deshpande S, Di Nisio M, Duffy S, Hernandez AV, Keurentjes JC, Lang S, Misso K, Ryder S, Schmidlkofer S, Westwood M, Kleijnen J (2015). "Cannabinoids for medical use: a systematic review and meta-analysis." JAMA, 313(24), 2456–2473. <doi: 10.1001/jama.2015.6358>