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dosresmeta (version 2.0.1)

cc_ex: Case-control data on alcohol and breast cancer risk

Description

The dataset reports the summarized dose-response results from a case-control study on alcohol and breast cancer, first presented by Rohan and McMichael.

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 4 observations on the following 10 variables:

gdaylabel for exposure levels.
doseassigned dose levels.
casenumber of cases for each exposure level.
controlnumber of controls for each exposure level.
ntotal number of subjects for each exposure level.
crudeorunadjusted odds ratios for each exposure level.
adjrradjusted odds ratios for each exposure level.
lblower bound for the confidence limits of the adjusted odds ratios.
ubupper bound for the confidence limits of the adjusted odds ratios.
logrrnatural logarithm of the adjusted odds ratios.

Author

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

References

Rohan, T. E., McMichael, A. J. (1988). Alcohol consumption and risk op breast cancer. International journal of cancer, 41(5), 695-699.

Greenland, S., Longnecker, M. P. (1992). Methods for trend estimation from summarized dose-response data, with applications to meta-analysis. American journal of epidemiology, 135(11), 1301-1309.