marinho {metaplus}

Marinho meta-analysis data

Description

Data for the meta-analysis by Marinho et al (2009) to determine the effectiveness of fluoride toothpastes on caries in children.

Usage

marinho

Format

A data frame with 70 observations on the following 11 variables.

study

study authors and date

nfluor

number in fluoride group

meanfluor

mean effect in fluoride group

sdfluor

standard deviation of effect in fluoride group

nplacebo

number in placebo group

meanplacebo

mean effect in placebo group

sdplacebo

standard deviation of effect in placebo group

meaneffect

mean effect difference

seeffect

standard error of effect difference

Source

Marinho et al (2009)

References

Marinho, V. C. C., Higgins, J. P. T., Logan, S., & Sheiham, A. (2009). Fluoride toothpastes for preventing dental caries in children and adolescents (Review). The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Retrieved from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD002278/pdf

Examples

data(marinho)
marinho1 <- metaplus(meaneffect, seeffect, plotci = TRUE, slab = study, cores = 1, data = marinho)