A meta-analysis of observational studies (12 case-control and six cohort or nested case-control) on the association of soy-food intake with breast cancer risk. Data are from Trock et al.'s (2006) Table 1. This dataset was used as the applied example in Mathur & VanderWeele (2020a).
soyMetaAn object of class data.frame with 20 rows and 3 columns.
The variables are as follows:
author Last name of the study's first author.
est Point estimate on the log-relative risk or log-odds ratio scale.
var Variance of the log-relative risk or log-odds ratio.
Trock BJ, Hilakivi-Clarke L, Clark R (2006). Meta-analysis of soy intake and breast cancer risk. Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Mathur MB & VanderWeele TJ (2020a). Sensitivity analysis for unmeasured confounding in meta-analyses. Journal of the American Statistical Association.