The dataset reports the summarized dose-response results from fourteen case-control studies on the relation between alcohol consumption and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.
A data frame with 63 observations on the following 8 variables:
id | id of the studies included in the analysis. |
author | names of the first author. |
type | code for study design. |
cases | number of cases for each exposure level. |
n | total number of subjects for each exposure level. |
dose | assigned dose levels. |
logrr | natural logarithm of the adjusted odds ratio. |
se | standard error for the logarithm of the adjusted odds ratio |
Alessio Crippa, <alessio.crippa@ki.se>
Rota M, Bellocco R, Scotti L, Tramacere I, Jenab M, Corrao G, La Vecchia C, Boffetta P, Bagnardi V. Random-effects meta-regression models for studying nonlinear dose-response relationship, with an application to alcohol and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. Statistics in medicine. 2010 Nov 20;29(26):2679-87.