BivMetaAnalysis {INLA} | R Documentation

## Bivariate Meta Analysis

### Description

Data are taken from a meta-analysis to compare the utility of three types of diagnostic imaging - lymphangiography (LAG), computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) - to detect lymph node metastases in patients with cervical cancer. The dataset consists of a total of 46 studies: the first 17 for LAG, the following 19 for CT and the last 10 for MR.

### Usage

    BivMetaAnalysis

### Format

A data frame with 92 observations on the following 9 variables.

N

  a numeric vector

Y

  a numeric vector

diid

  a numeric vector

lag.tp

  a numeric vector

lag.tn

  a numeric vector

ct.tp

  a numeric vector

ct.tn

  a numeric vector

mr.tp

  a numeric vector

mr.tn

  a numeric vector

### References

J. Scheidler and H. Hricak and K. K. Yu and L. Subak and M. R. Segal,"Radiological evaluation of lymph node metastases in patients with cervical cancer: a meta-analysis",JAMA 1997

### Examples

    data(BivMetaAnalysis)

[Package INLA version 25.06.07 Index]