alcohol_crc {dosresmeta}

Eight published studies on the relation between alcohol intake and colon-rectal cancer.

Description

The dataset reports the summarized dose-response results from eight prospective studies on the relation between alcohol intake and colorectal cancer risk.

Format

A data frame with 48 observations on the following 7 variables:

id	label for author's names (id variable).
type	code for study design.
dose	assigned dose levels.
cases	number of cases for each exposure level.
peryears	amount of person-time for each exposure level.
logrr	natural logarithm of the adjusted "relative risks".
se	standard error for the logarithm of the adjusted "relative risks".

Author(s)

Alessio Crippa, <[e-mail]>

References

Orsini, N., Li, R., Wolk, A., Khudyakov, P., Spiegelman, D. (2012). Meta-analysis for linear and nonlinear dose-response relations: examples, an evaluation of approximations, and software. American journal of epidemiology, 175(1), 66-73.