Trials investigating effectiveness of the BCG vaccine against TB

Source: R/TBdat.R

A dataset containing the results from 13 trials examining the efficacy of Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine against tuberculosis (TB).

TBdat

Format

A data frame with following coloumns

Trial

Trial number

TRTTB

number of TB events in treatment arm

TRT

number of subjects in treatment arm

CONTB

number of TB events in control arm

CON

number of subjects in control arm

Latitude

absolute latitude of the study location

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