ari {dosresmeta}

Five clinical trials on the relation between aripiprazole and schizophrenia

Description

The dataset reports the summarized dose-response results from five clinical trials on the relation between different levels of aripiprazole and severety of schizophrenia measured usign the PANSS medical score.

Format

A data frame with 18 observations on the following 6 variables:

id	id of the studies included in the analysis.
author	names of the first author of the studies.
dose	assigned dose level of aripiprazole (0 for placebo group).
y	outcome variable: change in PANNS score after and before treatment.
sd	standard deviation of y for each exposure level.
n	total number of subjects for each exposure level.

Author(s)

Alessio Crippa, <[e-mail]>

References

Crippa, A., Orsini, N. Dose-response meta-analysis of differences in means. BMC medical research methodology. 2016 Aug 2;16(1):91.