The dataset reports the summarized dose-response results from six observational studies on the relation between alcohol intake and vascular disease risk. Four are case-control studies, two prospective (cumulative-incidence data).
A data frame with 25 observations on the following 8 variables:
id | id of the studies included in the analysis. |
author | names of the first author of the study. |
type | code for study design. |
dose | assigned dose levels. |
cases | number of cases for each exposure level. |
n | total number of subjects for each exposure level. |
logrr | natural logarithm of the adjusted "relative risks". |
se | standard error for the logarithm of the adjusted "relative risks". |
Alessio Crippa, <alessio.crippa@ki.se>
Liu, Q., Cook, N. R., Bergstrom, A., Hsieh, C. C. (2009). A two-stage hierarchical regression model for meta-analysis of epidemiologic nonlinear dose-response data. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 53(12), 4157-4167.