BMC Medical Research Methodology

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Proportional odds ratio model for comparison of diagnostic tests in meta-analysis

Mir S Siadaty* and Jianfen Shu

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Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Box 800717, Charlottesville, Virginia, 22908, USA

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BMC Medical Research Methodology 2004, 4:27 doi:10.1186/1471-2288-4-27

Published: 10 December 2004

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Additional File 1:

In this file we present sample codes for a few of the models presented in the paper. The estimation mostly has been done in SAS, while the graphing (and some model-fitting) has been done in R.

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Additional File 2:

This zipped file contains 8 data files, in the .csv (comma separated value) and .xls (MS Excel) formats. They are to be used with the SAS and R codes we presented in the Appendix [additional file 1]. Five files are for the SAS codes presented in the Appendix. The file names are "data5.xls", "data5_t12&17.xls", "u125.xls", "data5_t18.xls", "data6.xls". Three files are for the R codes presented in the Appendix. The file names are "obsVSfit.csv", "dataNewExcerpt2.csv", and "data6_lor2.csv".

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