Recurrent ovarian carcinoma study

Description

A meta-analysis of 52 studies that were reported between January 1995 and November 2007.

Format

The data frame contains the following columns:

n

total number of subjects

PiY

disease prevalence

SeY

true positive

n1

subjects with disease

SpY

true negative

n1

health individuals

Note

The dataset ca125 is used to conduct multivariate meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy.

References

Chen, Y., Liu, Y., Chu, H., Lee, M. and Schmid C. (2015). A simple and robust method for multivariate meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy, Statistics in Medicine (under revision).

Gu P, Pan L, Wu S, Sun L, Huang G. CA 125, PET alone, PET-CT, CT and MRI in diagnosing recurrent ovarian carcinoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis. European journal of radiology 2009; 71(1):164-174.

See Also

mmeta, summary.mmeta

Examples

data(ca125)
summary(ca125)

Results