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Decontamination of the Digestive Tract Mortality, Short Dataset
Description
This dataset gives number of deaths and number of subjects in treatment vs. control groups in 14 studies from a meta-analysis of studies on antiobiotics to reduce infection in intensive-care units.
Usage
data(ddtm.s)Format
A data frame with fourteen rows, corresponding to fourteen different, unidentified studies. There are four columns: number of deaths in the treatment group, sample size in the treatment group, number of deaths in the control group, sample size in the control group.
Burr and Doss (2005) give the background for this dataset.
Source
Selective Decontamination of the Digestive Tract Trialists' Collaborative Group (1993). “Meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials of selective decontamination of the digestive tract.” British Medical Journal 307 525–532.
References
Burr, D. and Doss, H. (2005). “A Bayesian semiparametric model for random-effects meta-analysis.” Journal of the American Statistical Association 100 242–251.