meta (version 4.4-1)

Fleiss93cont: 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.

Usage

data(Fleiss93cont)

Format

A data frame with the following columns:

study

Study label

year

Year of publication

n.e

Number of observations in psychotherapy group

mean.e

Estimated mean in psychotherapy group

sd.e

Standard deviation in psychotherapy group

n.c

Number of observations in control group

mean.c

Estimated mean in control group

sd.c

Standard deviation in control group

Source

Fleiss JL (1993), The statistical basis of meta-analysis. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 2, 121--145.

See Also

Fleiss93

Examples

data(Fleiss93cont)
metacont(n.e, mean.e, sd.e,
         n.c, mean.c, sd.c,
         data=Fleiss93cont,
         studlab=paste(study, year),
         comb.random=FALSE)