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dosresmeta (version 2.0.1)

alcohol_lc: Four published studies on the relation between alcohol intake and lung cancer.

Description

The dataset reports the summarized dose-response results from four prospective studies on the relation between alcohol intake and lunger cancer.

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 20? observations on the following 7 variables:

idlabel for author's names (id variable).
typecode for study design.
doseassigned dose levels.
casesnumber of cases for each exposure level.
peryearsamount of person-time for each exposure level.
logrrnatural logarithm of the adjusted "relative risks".
sestandard error for the logarithm of the adjusted "relative risks".

Author

Alessio Crippa, <alessio.crippa@ki.se>

References

Orsini, N., Li, R., Wolk, A., Khudyakov, P., Spiegelman, D. (2012). Meta-analysis for linear and nonlinear dose-response relations: examples, an evaluation of approximations, and software. American journal of epidemiology, 175(1), 66-73.