labbe: L'Abbe plot for meta-analysis with binary outcomes

Description

Draw a L'Abbé plot for meta-analysis with binary outcomes.

Usage

labbe(x, ...)
"labbe"(x, y, xlim, ylim, xlab=NULL, ylab=NULL, TE.fixed, TE.random, comb.fixed=FALSE, comb.random=FALSE, axes=TRUE, pch=21, text=NULL, cex=1, col="black", bg="lightgray", lwd=1, lwd.fixed=lwd, lwd.random=lwd, lty.fixed=2, lty.random=9, sm=NULL, weight, studlab=FALSE, cex.studlab=0.8, ...)
"labbe"(x, xlim, ylim, xlab=NULL, ylab=NULL, TE.fixed=x$TE.fixed, TE.random=x$TE.random, comb.fixed=x$comb.fixed, comb.random=x$comb.random, axes=TRUE, pch=21, text=NULL, cex=1, col="black", bg="lightgray", lwd=1, lwd.fixed=lwd, lwd.random=lwd, lty.fixed=2, lty.random=9, sm=x$sm, weight, studlab=FALSE, cex.studlab=0.8, ...)

Arguments

The x coordinates of points of the L'Abbé plot. Alternatively, an object of class metabin.

The y coordinates of the L'Abbé plot, optional if x is an appropriate structure.

xlim

The x limits (min,max) of the plot.

ylim

The y limits (min,max) of the plot.

xlab

A label for the x-axis.

ylab

A label for the y-axis.

TE.fixed

A numeric or vector specifying combined fixed effect estimate(s).

TE.random

A numeric or vector specifying combined random effects estimate(s).

comb.fixed

A logical indicating whether the pooled fixed effect estimate should be plotted.

comb.random

A logical indicating whether the pooled random effects estimate should be plotted.

axes

A logical indicating whether axes should be drawn on the plot.

pch

The plotting symbol used for individual studies.

text

A character vector specifying the text to be used instead of plotting symbol.

cex

The magnification to be used for plotting symbol.

col

A vector with colour of plotting symbols.

A vector with background colour of plotting symbols (only used if pch in 21:25).

lwd

The line width.

lwd.fixed

The line width for fixed effect estimate (if comb.fixed is not NULL or FALSE).

lwd.random

The line width for random effects estimate (if comb.random is not NULL or FALSE).

lty.fixed

Line type (pooled fixed effect estimate).

lty.random

Line type (pooled random effects estimate).

A character string indicating underlying summary measure, i.e., "RD", "RR", "OR".

weight

Either a numeric vector specifying relative sizes of plotting symbols or a character string indicating which type of plotting symbols is to be used for individual treatment estimates. One of missing (see Details), "same", "fixed", or "random", can be abbreviated. Plot symbols have the same size for all studies or represent study weights from fixed effect or random effects model.

studlab

A logical indicating whether study labels should be printed in the graph. A vector with study labels can also be provided (must be of same length as x$event.e then).

cex.studlab

Size of study labels.

...

Graphical arguments as in par may also be passed as arguments.

Details

A L'Abbé plot is a scatter plot with the risk in the control group on the x-axis and the risk in the experimental group on the y-axis (L'Abbé et al., 1987). It can be used to evaluate heterogeneity in meta-analysis. Furthermore, this plot can aid to choose a summary measure (odds ratio, risk ratio, risk difference) that will result in more consistent results. If comb.fixed is TRUE, the pooled estimate of the fixed effect model is plotted as a line. If comb.random is TRUE, the pooled estimate of the random effects model is plotted as a line.

Information from object x is utilised if argument weight is missing. Weights from the fixed effect model are used (weight="fixed") if argument x$comb.fixed is TRUE; weights from the random effects model are used (weight="random") if argument x$comb.random is TRUE and x$comb.fixed is FALSE.

References

L'Abbé KA, Detsky AS, O'Rourke K (1987), Meta-analysis in clinical research. Annals of Internal Medicine, 107, 224--233.

Examples

Run this code

data(Olkin95)
meta1 <- metabin(event.e, n.e, event.c, n.c,
                 data=Olkin95,
                 studlab=paste(author, year),
                 sm="RR", method="I")


#
# L'Abbe plot
#
labbe(meta1)