Studies on the association of withdrawal from study due to adverse events and tricyclic treatment

Description

Results from 16 clinical trials investigating the association of withdrawal from study due to adverse events and tricyclic treatment

Format

The data frame contains the following columns:

y1

number of subjects withdrew due to adverse events in the placebo group

n1

number of subjects in the placebo group

y2

number of subjects withdrew due to adverse events in the tricyclic treatment group

n2

number of subjects in the tricyclic treatment group

studynames

The study names indicating the last name of the first author and the year of each study

Note

The dataset withdrawal is used to conduct exact posterior inference of relative risks and risk difference for multiple 2X2 tables.

References

Jackson, J. L., Shimeall, W., Sessums, L., DeZee, K. J., Becher, D., Diemer, M., Berbano, E., OMalley, P. G. (2010) Tricyclic antidepressants and headaches: systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ, 341, C5222-c5234.

See Also

multipletables, summary.multipletables, plot.multipletables,

Examples

library(mmeta)
data(withdrawal)
summary(withdrawal)