meta (version 6.5-0)

Fleiss1993bin: Aspirin after Myocardial Infarction

Description

Meta-analysis on aspirin in preventing death after myocardial infarction.

Data example in Fleiss (1993) for meta-analysis with binary outcomes.

Format

A data frame with the following columns:

study	study label
year	year of publication
d.asp	number of deaths in aspirin group
n.asp	number of observations in aspirin group
d.plac	number of deaths in placebo group
n.plac	number of observations in placebo group

Examples

data(Fleiss1993bin)
metabin(d.asp, n.asp, d.plac, n.plac, data = Fleiss1993bin,
  studlab = paste(study, year), sm = "OR", random = FALSE)