metaSEM (version 1.2.4)

Nam03: Dataset on the Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) on children's health

Description

This dataset includes 59 studies reported by Nam, Mengersen, and Garthwaite (2003) on the potential health effects among children exposed to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), or passive smoking. The effect sizes are the log odds ratios of asthma and lower respiratory disease (LRD).

Usage

data(Nam03)

Details

A list of data with the following structure:

ID

Study identification number.

Size

Total number of valid subjects in the study.

Age

Mean age of participants.

Year

Year of publication.

Country

Country code.

Smoke

Source of ETS.

Adj

Whether the reported odds ratio is adjusted for covariates.

Asthma_logOR

Log odds ratio of asthma.

LRD_logOR

Log odds ratio of lower respiratory disease.

Asthma_v

Sampling variance of Asthma_logOR.

AsthmaLRD_cov_05

Sampling covariance between Asthma_logOR and LRD_logOR by assuming a correlation of 0.5

LRD_v

Sampling variance of LRD_logOR.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(Nam03)
# }