KussHeartdat {nmaINLA}

Data for the ischemic heart disease sparse pairwise meta-analysis discussed in Kuss (2014)

Description

Dataset for pairwise meta-analysis with many zero entries. Data is from a Cochrane review on postoperative stroke occurrence when comparing off-pump and on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting for ischemic heart disease. This data is used as an example in Kuss (2014).

Usage

KussHeartdat

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 60 rows and 4 columns.

Source

Kuss O. (2015), Statistical methods for meta-analyses including information from studies without any events–add nothing to nothing and succeed nevertheless, Statist. Med., 34; pages 1097-1116, doi: 10.1002/sim.6383