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<h2>Decontamination of the Digestive Tract Mortality, Short Dataset</h2>

<h3>Description</h3>

<p>This dataset gives number of deaths and number of subjects
in treatment vs. control groups in 14 studies from a meta-analysis of
studies on antiobiotics to reduce infection in intensive-care units.</p>


<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>data(ddtm.s)</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A data frame with fourteen rows, corresponding to fourteen
different, unidentified studies.  There are four columns: number of
deaths in the treatment group, sample size in the treatment group,
number of deaths in the control group, sample size in the control
group.
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<p><cite>Burr and Doss (2005)</cite> give the background for this dataset.</p>


<h3>Source</h3>

<p>Selective Decontamination of the Digestive Tract Trialists'
Collaborative Group (1993).  &ldquo;Meta-analysis of randomised
controlled trials of selective decontamination of the digestive tract.&rdquo;
<em>British Medical Journal 307</em> 525&ndash;532.</p>


<h3>References</h3>

<p>Burr, D. and Doss, H. (2005).  &ldquo;A Bayesian semiparametric model
for random-effects meta-analysis.&rdquo;  <em>Journal of the American
Statistical Association 100</em> 242&ndash;251.  
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