Description

This dataset includes 13 studies on the effectiveness of the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine for preventing tuberculosis (see van Houwelingen, Arends, & Stijnen (2002) for details).

A list of data with the following structure:

No Number of the trials

Author Authors of the original studies

Year Year of the publication

tpos Vaccinated group with disease

tneg Vaccinated group without disease

ttotal Vaccinated group total

cpos Not vaccinated group with disease

cneg Not vaccinated group without disease

ctotal Not vaccinated group total

Ablat Geographic latitude of the place where the study was done

Alloc Method of treatment allocation

References

Berkey, C. S., Hoaglin, D. C., Mosteller, F., & Colditz, G. A. (1995). A random-effects regression model for meta-analysis. Statistics in Medicine, 14(4), 395–411.

Colditz, G. A., Brewer, T. F., Berkey, C. S., Wilson, M. E., Burdick, E., Fineberg, H. V., et al. (1994). Efficacy of BCG vaccine in the prevention of tuberculosis: Meta-analysis of the published literature. Journal of the American Medical Association, 271(9), 698–702.

Description

Results from 9 studies on the length of the hospital stay of stroke patients under specialized care and under conventional/routine (non-specialist) care.

Details

The 9 studies provide data in terms of the mean length of the hospital stay (in days) of stroke patients under specialized care and under conventional/routine (non-specialist) care. The goal of the meta-analysis was to examine the hypothesis whether specialist stroke unit care will result in a shorter length of hospitalization compared to routine management.

The data frame contains the following columns:

No study number

Study source of data

n1i number of patients under specialized care

m1i mean length of stay (in days) under specialized care

sd1i standard deviation of the length of stay under specialized care

n2i number of patients under routine care

m2i mean length of stay (in days) under routine care

sd2i standard deviation of the length of stay under routine care

Source

Normand, S. T. (1999). Meta-analysis: Formulating, evaluating, combining, and reporting. Statistics in Medicine, 18, 321–359.

Description

Results from 19 studies examining how teachers expectations about their pupils can influence actual IQ levels.

In the so-called ‘Pygmalion study’ (Rosenthal & Jacobson, 1968), “all of the predominantly poor children in the so-called Oak elementary school were administered a test pretentiously labeled the ‘Harvard Test of Inflected Acquisition.’ After explaining that this newly designed instrument had identified those children most likely to show dramatic intellectual growth during the coming year, the experimenters gave the names of these ‘bloomers’ to the teachers. In truth, the test was a traditional IQ test and the ‘bloomers’ were a randomly selected 20% of the student population. After retesting the children 8 months later, the experimenters reported that those predicted to bloom had in fact gained significantly more in total IQ (nearly 4 points) and reasoning IQ (7 points) than the control group children. Further, at the end of the study, the teachers rated the experimental children as intellectually more curious, happier, better adjusted, and less in need of approval than their control group peers” (Raudenbush, 1984).

In the following years, a series of studies were conducted attempting to replicate this rather controversial finding. However, the great majority of those studies were unable to demonstrate a statistically significant difference between the two experimental groups in terms of IQ scores. Raudenbush (1984) conducted a meta-analysis based on 19 such studies to further examine the evidence for the existence of the ‘Pygmalion effect’. The dataset includes the results from these studies.

The effect size measure used for the meta-analysis was the standardized mean difference (yi), with positive values indicating that the supposed ‘bloomers’ had, on average, higher IQ scores than those in the control group. The weeks variable indicates the number of weeks of prior contact between teachers and students before the expectancy induction. Testing was done either in a group setting or individually, which is indicated by the setting variable. Finally, the tester variable indicates whether the test administrators were either aware or blind to the researcher-provided designations of the childrens intellectual potential.

The data in this dataset were obtained from Raudenbush and Bryk (1985) with information on the setting and tester variables extracted from Raudenbush (1984).

The data frame contains the following columns:

No study number

Author study author(s)

Year publication year

weeks weeks of contact prior to expectancy induction

setting whether tests were group or individually administered

tester whether test administrator was aware or blind

n1i sample size of experimental group

n2i sample size of control group

yi standardized mean difference

vi corresponding sampling variance

Source

Raudenbush, S. W. (1984). Magnitude of teacher expectancy effects on pupil IQ as a function of the credibility of expectancy induction: A synthesis of findings from 18 experiments. Journal of Educational Psychology, 76, 85–97.

Raudenbush, S. W., & Bryk, A. S. (1985). Empirical Bayes meta-analysis. Journal of Educational Statistics, 10, 75–98.

Description

Results from 160 studies on the correlation between employment interview assessments and job performance.

Details

The 160 studies provide data in terms of the correlation between employment interview performance and actual job performance. In addition, the interview type and the interview structure are indicated.

McDaniel et al. (1994) describe the interview type and structure variables as follows. "Questions in situational interviews [...] focus on the individuals ability to project what his or her behavior would be in a given situation. [...] Job-related interviews are those in which the interviewer is a personnel officer or hiring authority and the questions attempt to assess past behaviors and job-related information, but most questions are not considered situational. Psychological interviews are conducted by a psychologist, and the questions are intended to assess personal traits, such as dependability." In structured interviews, "the questions and acceptable responses were specified in advance and the responses were rated for appropriateness of content. [...] Unstructured interviews gather applicant information in a less systematic manner than do structured interviews. Although the questions may be specified in advance, they usually are not, and there is seldom a formalized scoring guide. Also, all persons being interviewed are not typically asked the same questions."

The goal of the meta-analysis was to examine the overall criterion-related validity of employment interviews and to examine whether the validity depends on the type and structure of the interview.

The data in this dataset were obtained from Table A.2 in Rothstein, Sutton, and Borenstein (2005, p. 325-329). Note that the type and struct variables contain some NAs.

The data frame contains the following columns:

No study number

ni sample size of the study

ri observed correlation

type interview type (j = job-related, s = situational, p = psychological)

struct interview structure (u = unstructured, s = structured)

Source

Rothstein, H. R., Sutton, A. J., & Borenstein, M. (Eds.). (2005). Publication bias in meta-analysis: Prevention, assessment, and adjustments. Chichester, England: Wiley.

Description

Results from 9 studies on the reliability of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) Scale administered to children providing care to an elderly parent.

Details

The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) Scale is a 20-item questionnaire assessing various symptoms of depression, with each item scored on a 4-point scale. The scale has been used in several studies to examine depressive symptoms in children providing care to an elderly parent. The dataset includes information on the reliability of the scale as measured with Cronbachs alpha in 9 such studies. Also, the gender composition of the children in each sample is indicated.

The data frame contains the following columns:

No study number

Author source of data

ni sample size

mi number of items in the scale

ai observed value of Cronbachs alpha

caregivers gender of the children in the sample

Source

Bonett, D. G. (2010). Varying coefficient meta-analytic methods for alpha reliability. Psychological Methods, 15, 368–385.

Description

Results from 18 studies comparing the risk of catheter-related bloodstream infection when using anti-infective-treated versus standard catheters in the acute care setting.

Details

The use of a central venous catheter may lead to a catheter-related bloodstream infection (CRBSI), which in turn increases the risk of morbidity and mortality. Anti-infective-treated catheters have been developed that are meant to reduce the risk of CRBSIs. Niel-Weise et al. (2007) conducted a meta-analysis of studies comparing infection risk when using anti-infective-treated versus standard catheters in the acute care setting. The results from 18 such studies are included in this dataset.

The data frame contains the following columns:

No study number

Author author

Year publication year

ai number of CRBSIs in patients receiving an anti-infective catheter

n1i number of patients receiving an anti-infective catheter

ci number of CRBSIs in patients receiving a standard catheter

n2i number of patients receiving a standard catheter

Source

Niel-Weise, B. S., Stijnen, T., & van den Broek, P. J. (2007). Anti-infective-treated central venous catheters: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials. Intensive Care Medicine, 33, 2058–2068.

Description

The data frame contains the following columns:

Author Study identifier

type_study Type of study

population Population studied, or source of controls

year Year

country Country of origin

journal Journal of publication

tdeath Deaths on treatment (exposed)

tnodeath Alive on treatment (exposed)

cdeath Deaths not on treatment (unexposed)

cnodeath Alive not on treatment (unexposed)

OR Odds ratio

ORlci Lower 95% CI

ORuci Upper 95% CI

RR Risk Ratio

RRlci Lower 95% CI

RRuci Upper 95% CI

tsample Number treated (exposed)

tmean Mean in treated (exposed)

tsd Standard deviation in treated (exposed)

csample Number not treated (unexposed)

cmean Mean in untreated (unexposed)

csd Standard deviation in untreated (unexposed)

Source

Ross Harris & Mike Bradburn & Jon Deeks & Roger Harbord & Doug Altman & Thomas Steichen & Jonathan Sterne, 2006. "METAN: Stata module for fixed and random effects meta-analysis," Statistical Software Components S456798, Boston College Department of Economics, revised 23 Sep 2010.