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Pagliaro1992: Meta-analysis on Prevention of First Bleeding in Cirrhosis

Description

Meta-analysis on Prevention of First Bleeding in Cirrhosis comparing beta-blocker or sclerotherapy with placebo.

Format

A data frame with the following columns:

id	study id
treat.exp	treatment in experimental group
logOR	log odds ratio
selogOR	standard error of log odds ratio
bleed.exp	number of bleedings in experimental group
n.cont	number of observations in experimental group
bleed.plac	number of bleedings in placebo group
n.plac	number of observations in placebo group

Examples

data(Pagliaro1992)
sclero <- subset(Pagliaro1992, treat.exp == "Sclerotherapy")

m <- metagen(logOR, selogOR, data = sclero, sm = "OR")
m

# Thompson & Sharp (1999), Table IV, method (2)
metabias(m, method = "Egger")

# Thompson & Sharp (1999), Table IV, method (3a)
metabias(m, method = "Thompson")

# Thompson & Sharp (1999), Table IV, method (3b)
update(m, method.tau = "ML")
metabias(update(m, method.tau = "ML"), method = "Thompson")