R: Data for Cochrane Collaboration logo

cochrane {rmeta} | R Documentation

## 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.

### Source

http://www.cochrane.org

### Examples

    data(cochrane)
    steroid <- meta.MH(n.trt, n.ctrl, ev.trt, ev.ctrl,
                       names=name, data=cochrane)
    plot(steroid, col=meta.colors("RoyalBlue"))

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