df.IRR {metaumbrella}

Meta-analysis exploring adverse events of smoking.

Description

Fictitious dataset of a meta-analysis of prospective cohorts assessing adverse effects of smoking on one binary outcome.

Usage

df.IRR

Format

The dataset contains the following variables:

meta_review	name of the first author of the meta-analysis.
factor	name of the factor (only one factor is included).
author	first study author of the individual studies
year	year of publication of the individual studies.
measure	type of effect size (IRR).
value	IRR value.
ci_lo	lower bound of the 95% confidence interval.
ci_up	upper bound of the 95% confidence interval.
n_cases	number of cases (sum of the number of cases in the exposed and non-exposed
	groups).
n_cases_exp	number of cases in the exposed group.
n_cases_nexp	number of cases in the non-exposed group.
time	total person-time at risk (sum of the person-time at risk in the exposed and
	non-exposed groups).
time_exp	person-time at risk in the exposed group.
time_nexp	person-time at risk in the non-exposed group.

Source

No source, the data are entirely fictitious