Fleiss1993cont

Fleiss93cont

Meta-analysis on the Effect of Mental Health Treatment on Medical
Utilisation.
Data example in Fleiss (1993) for meta-analysis with continuous outcomes.

datasets

User-friendly general package providing standard methods for meta-analysis and supporting Schwarzer, Carpenter, and Rücker <DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-21416-0>, "Meta-Analysis with R" (2015):
- common effect and random effects meta-analysis;
- several plots (forest, funnel, Galbraith / radial, L'Abbe, Baujat, bubble);
- three-level meta-analysis model;
- generalised linear mixed model;
- Hartung-Knapp method for random effects model;
- Kenward-Roger method for random effects model;
- prediction interval;
- statistical tests for funnel plot asymmetry;
- trim-and-fill method to evaluate bias in meta-analysis;
- meta-regression;
- cumulative meta-analysis and leave-one-out meta-analysis;
- import data from 'RevMan 5';
- produce forest plot summarising several (subgroup) meta-analyses.

Guido Schwarzer

General Package for Meta-Analysis

Fleiss1993cont function

A data frame with the following columns:<table class="table">
<tr><td>study</td><td>study label</td></tr>
<tr><td>year</td><td>year of publication</td></tr>
<tr><td>n.psyc</td><td>number of observations in psychotherapy
 group</td></tr>
<tr><td>mean.psyc</td><td>estimated mean in psychotherapy group</td></tr>
<tr><td>sd.psyc</td><td>standard deviation in psychotherapy group</td></tr>
<tr><td>n.cont</td><td>number of observations in control group</td></tr>
<tr><td>mean.cont</td><td>estimated mean in control group</td></tr>
<tr><td>sd.cont</td><td>standard deviation in control group</td></tr>
</table>

Format

Mental Health Treatment — Fleiss1993cont

A data frame with the following columns:<table class='table'>
<tr><td>study</td><td>study label</td></tr>
<tr><td>year</td><td>year of publication</td></tr>
<tr><td>n.psyc</td><td>number of observations in psychotherapy
 group</td></tr>
<tr><td>mean.psyc</td><td>estimated mean in psychotherapy group</td></tr>
<tr><td>sd.psyc</td><td>standard deviation in psychotherapy group</td></tr>
<tr><td>n.cont</td><td>number of observations in control group</td></tr>
<tr><td>mean.cont</td><td>estimated mean in control group</td></tr>
<tr><td>sd.cont</td><td>standard deviation in control group</td></tr>
</table>

Fleiss1993cont: Mental Health Treatment

Description

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Format

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Examples

*study*	study label
*year*	year of publication
*n.psyc*	number of observations in psychotherapy group
*mean.psyc*	estimated mean in psychotherapy group
*sd.psyc*	standard deviation in psychotherapy group
*n.cont*	number of observations in control group
*mean.cont*	estimated mean in control group
*sd.cont*	standard deviation in control group