meta (version 6.5-0)

Fleiss1993cont: Mental Health Treatment

Description

Meta-analysis on the Effect of Mental Health Treatment on Medical Utilisation.

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

Format

A data frame with the following columns:

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

See Also

Fleiss1993bin

Examples

data(Fleiss1993cont)
# Note, the following command uses the bias-corrected version of
# Hedges' g. Accordingly, results differ from Fleiss (1993), section 3,
# using the uncorrected version of Hedges' g.
metacont(n.psyc, mean.psyc, sd.psyc, n.cont, mean.cont, sd.cont,
  data = Fleiss1993cont, studlab = paste(study, year),
  random = FALSE, sm = "SMD")