dat.Berkey1995

A dataset containing the results from 13 trials examining the efficacy
of Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine against tuberculosis (TB).

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Performs Bayesian meta-analysis, meta-regression and model-based meta-analysis
using 'Stan'. Includes binomial-normal hierarchical models and option to use
weakly informative priors for the heterogeneity parameter and the treatment effect
parameter which are described in Guenhan, Roever, and Friede (2020) <doi:10.1002/jrsm.1370>.

Burak Kuersad Guenhan

MetaStan

Bayesian Meta-Analysis via 'Stan'

Christian Roever

Trustees of Columbia University

dat.Berkey1995 function

A data frame with following coloumns<dl class="dl-horizontal">
 <dt>Trial</dt><dd>Trial number</dd>
 <dt>r1</dt><dd>number of TB events in treatment arm</dd>
 <dt>n1</dt><dd>number of subjects in treatment arm</dd>
 <dt>r2</dt><dd>number of TB events in control arm</dd>
 <dt>n2</dt><dd>number of subjects in control arm</dd>
 <dt>Latitude</dt><dd>absolute latitude of the study location</dd>
 <dt>publication</dt><dd>author and date</dd>
</dl>

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Trials investigating effectiveness of the BCG vaccine against TB — dat.Berkey1995

A data frame with following coloumns<dl class='dl-horizontal'>
 <dt>Trial</dt><dd>Trial number</dd>
 <dt>r1</dt><dd>number of TB events in treatment arm</dd>
 <dt>n1</dt><dd>number of subjects in treatment arm</dd>
 <dt>r2</dt><dd>number of TB events in control arm</dd>
 <dt>n2</dt><dd>number of subjects in control arm</dd>
 <dt>Latitude</dt><dd>absolute latitude of the study location</dd>
 <dt>publication</dt><dd>author and date</dd>
</dl>

dat.Berkey1995: Trials investigating effectiveness of the BCG vaccine against TB

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