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dat.beck17: A Meta-Analysis of Prevalence of Depression or Depressive Symptoms Among Medical Students

Description

This dataset serves as an example of meta-analysis of proportions.

Usage

data("dat.beck17")

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 6 studies with the following 2 variables within each study.

e

event counts of samples with depression or depressive symptoms.

n

sample sizes.

Details

The original article by Rotenstein et al. (2016) stratified all extracted studies based on various screening instruments and cutoff scores. This dataset focuses on the meta-analysis of 6 studies with Beck Depression Inventory Score \(\geq\)17.