caprie.3grps {bspmma}R Documentation

CAPRIE Study: Three Risk Groups

Description

From the CAPRIE study comparing clopidogrel versus Aspirin, this dataset gives risk ratios and their SEs separately for patients who had stroke, heart attack (myocardial infarction or MI), and peripheral arterial disease (PAD).

Usage

data(caprie.3grps)

Format

A data frame with three rows, corresponding to the three risk groups. There are three columns: study (character, for the risk groups), psi.hat (numeric, the log odds ratio, and se.psi.hat (numeric, estimated SE of the log odds ratio).

Source

CAPRIE Steering Committee (1996), A randomized, blinded trial of clopidogrel versus aspirin in patients at risk of ischaemic events (CAPRIE), Lancet, 348, 1329–1339.

Burr and Doss (2005) state how the SEs for the log odds ratios for the three risk groups are obtained from data on p.\ 1334 of the CAPRIE article.

References

Burr, D. and Doss, H. (2005). A Bayesian semi-parametric model for random effects meta analysis. The Journal of the American Statistical Association,100, 242–251.


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