rmeta (version 3.0)

cochrane: Data for Cochrane Collaboration logo

Description

Data from randomised trials before 1980 of corticosteroid therapy in premature labour and its effect on neonatal death.

Usage

data(cochrane)

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

name

Identifier for the study

ev.trt

Number of deaths in the treated group

n.trt

Number in the treated group

ev.ctrl

Number of deaths in the control group

n.ctrl

Number in the control group

Details

This meta-analysis, if done, would likely have resulted in the treatment being widely used a decade earlier than it was, saving many lives. The graph is part of the logo of the Cochrane Collaboration, a group aiming to perform systematic reviews of the entire clinical trial literature.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(cochrane)
steroid <- meta.MH(n.trt, n.ctrl, ev.trt, ev.ctrl,
                   names=name, data=cochrane)
plot(steroid, col=meta.colors("RoyalBlue"))
# }