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Abstract
A dose-response meta-analysis of epidemiological studies can encounter different types of confidence intervals (floated vs. conventional). This paper illustrates how to back calculate conventional confidence intervals from a set of relative risks reported with floated confidence intervals or floated standard errors. Furthermore, we provide an implementation of the formulas in a user-friendly program developed for Stata software. I exemplify the point using published data about alcohol intake and endometrial cancer incidence from the Million Women Study. 2009 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19959250 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2009.11.005
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Comput Methods Programs Biomed ISSN: 0169-2607 Impact factor: 5.428