cc_ex: Case-control data on alcohol and breast cancer risk
Description
The dataset reports the summarized dose-response results
from a case-control study on alcohol and breast cancer,
first presented by Rohan and McMichael.format
A data frame with 4 observations on the following 10 variables:
ll{
gday
label for exposure levels.
dose
assigned dose level.
case
number of cases for each exposure level.
control
number of controls for each exposure level.
n
total number of subjects for each exposure level.
crudeor
unadjusted odds ratios for each exposure level.
adjrr
adjusted odds ratios for each exposure level.
lb
lower bound for the confidence limit of the adjusted odds ratios.
ub
upper bound for the confidence limit of the adjusted odds ratios.
logrr
natural logarithm of adjusted odds ratios.
}References
Rohan, T. E., McMichael, A. J. (1988). Alcohol consumption
and risk op breast cancer. International journal of cancer,
41(5), 695-699.
Greenland, S., Longnecker, M. P. (1992). Methods for trend
estimation from summarized dose-response data, with
applications to meta-analysis. American journal of
epidemiology, 135(11), 1301-1309.