A dataset containing the results from 13 trials examining the efficacy
of Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine against tuberculosis (TB).
A data frame with following coloumns
- Trial
Trial number
- r1
number of TB events in treatment arm
- n1
number of subjects in treatment arm
- r2
number of TB events in control arm
- n2
number of subjects in control arm
- Latitude
absolute latitude of the study location
- publication
author and date
Source
Berkey, C.S., Hoaglin, D.C., Mosteller, F. and Colditz,
G.A., 1995. A random-effects regression model for meta-analysis.
Statistics in medicine, 14(4), pp.395-411