\documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{amsmath, amssymb,amsthm, epsfig,epstopdf} %\setlength{\topsep}{4mm} \setlength{\topmargin}{-0.3in} \setlength{\headheight}{-0.5 in} \setlength{\textwidth}{6.8in} \setlength{\textheight}{9in} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-0.2in} \setlength{\footskip}{0.5in} \newcommand{\br}{{\mathbf{r}}} \newcommand{\bs}{{\mathbf{s}}} \newcommand{\betahat}{{\widehat{\beta}}} \newcommand{\gammatilde}{{\widetilde{\gamma}}} \begin{document} \begin{center} {\large \bf Supplementary material to exact and efficient inference procedure for meta analysis and its application to the analysis of independent $2 \times 2$ tables with all available data but without artificial continuity correction} \vspace{0.1 in} Lu Tian$^1$, Tianxi Cai$^2$, Marc A. Pfeffer$^3,$ \\ Nikita Piankov$^4$, Pierre-Yves Cremieux$^{4,5}$ and L. J. Wei$^2$ \\ \vspace{.1in} \noindent {\it \footnotemark[1] Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago IL\\ \footnotemark[2] Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University, Boston, MA \\ \footnotemark[3] Cardiovascular Division, Brigham \& Women's Hospital\\ \footnotemark[4] Analysis Group, Boston MA \\ \footnotemark[5] Department of Economics, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada} \\ \end{center} \newpage \begin{table} \begin{center} Table I. Number of Patients, Myocardial Infarctions (MI), and Cardiovascular death (Death) for 48 Rosiglitazone comparative studies. {\footnotesize \begin{tabular}{ccccccccc} \hline \\ ID & {\bf Study} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{{\bf Rosiglitazone Group}}& & \multicolumn{3}{c}{{\bf Control Group}} \\ & & Patient & MI & Death && Patient & MI & Death \\ 1 & 49653/011& 357 & 2 & 1 && 176 & 0 & 0\\ 2 & 49653/020& 391 & 2 & 0 && 207 & 1 & 0\\ 3 & 49653/024& 774 & 1 & 0 && 185 & 1 & 0\\ 4 & 49653/093& 213 & 0 & 0 && 109 & 1 & 0\\ 5 & 49653/094& 232 & 1 & 1 && 116 & 0 & 0\\ 6 & 100684 & ~43 & 0 & 0 && ~47 & 1 & 0\\ 7 & 49653/143& 121 & 1 & 0 && 124 & 0 & 0\\ 8 & 49653/211& 110 & 5 & 3 && 114 & 2 & 2\\ 9 & 49653/284& 382 & 1 & 0 && 384 & 0 & 0\\ 10& 712753/008&284 & 1 & 0 && 135 & 0 & 0\\ 11& AVM100264& 294 & 0 & 2 && 302 & 1 & 1\\ 12& BRL49653C/185 & 563 & 2 & 0 && 142 & 0 & 0\\ 13& BRL49653/334 & 278 & 2 & 0 && 279 & 1 & 1\\ 14& BRL49653/347 & 418 & 2 & 0 && 212 & 0 & 0\\ 15& 49653/015 & 395 & 2 & 2 && 198 & 1 & 0\\ 16& 49653/079 & 203 & 1 & 1 && 106 & 1 & 1\\ 17& 49653/080 & 104 & 1 & 0 && ~99 & 2 & 0\\ 18& 49653/082 & 212 & 2 & 1 && 107 & 0 & 0\\ 19& 49653/085 & 138 & 3 & 1 && 139 & 1 & 0\\ 20& 49653/095 & 196 & 0 & 1 && ~96 & 0 & 0\\ 21& 49653/097 & 122 & 0 & 0 && 120 & 1 & 0\\ 22& 49653/125 & 175 & 0 & 0 && 173 & 1 & 0\\ 23& 49653/127 & ~56 & 1 & 0 && ~58 & 0 & 0\\ 24& 49653/128 & ~39 & 1 & 0 && ~38 & 0 & 0\\ 25& 49653/134 & 561 & 0 & 1 && 276 & 2 & 0\\ 26& 49653/135 & 116 & 2 & 2 && 111 & 3 & 1\\ 27& 49653/136 & 148 & 1 & 2 && 143 & 0 & 0\\ 28& 49653/145 & 231 & 1 & 1 && 242 & 0 & 0\\ 29& 49653/147 & ~89 & 1 & 0 && ~88 & 0 & 0\\ 30& 49653/162 & 168 & 1 & 1 && 172 & 0 & 0\\ 31& 49653/234 & 116 & 0 & 0 && ~61 & 0 & 0\\ 32& 49653/330 &1172 & 1 & 1 && 377 & 0 & 0\\ 33& 49653/331 & 706 & 0 & 1 && 325 & 0 & 0\\ 34& 49653/137 & 204 & 1 & 0 && 185 & 2 & 1\\ 35& SB-712753/002& 288 & 1 & 1 && 280 & 0 & 0\\ 36& SB-712753/003& 254 & 1 & 0 && 272 & 0 & 0\\ 37& SB-712753/007& 314 & 1 & 0 && 154 & 0 & 0\\ 38& SB-712753/009& 162 & 0 & 0 && 160 & 0 & 0\\ 39& 49653/132 & 442 & 1 & 1 && 112 & 0 & 0\\ 40& AVA100193 & 394 & 1 & 1 && 124 & 0 & 0\\ 41& DREAM &2635 & 15& 12&&2634 & 9 & 10\\ 42& ADOPT &1456 & 27& 2 &&2895 & 41& 5\\ 43& 49653/044$^*$ & 101 & 0 & 0 && ~51 & 0 & 0\\ 44& 49653/096$^*$ & 232 & 0 & 0 && 115 & 0 & 0\\ 45& 49653/282$^*$ & ~70 & 0 & 0 && ~75 & 0 & 0\\ 46& 49653/369$^*$ & ~25 & 0 & 0 && ~24 & 0 & 0\\ 47& 49653/325$^*$ & 196 & 0 & 0 && 195 & 0 & 0\\ 48& 797620/004$^*$& 676 & 0 & 0 && 225 & 0 & 0\\ \hline \\ \multicolumn{9}{l}{$^*:$ Not reported in Table 1 of Nissen and Wolski (2007)} \end{tabular} } \end{center} \end{table} \clearpage \newpage \begin{figure} \begin{center} {\bf FIGURE I.} 95\% confidence intervals of the log(odds ratio) for MI and CVD death (control is the reference group) with 48 studies listed in Table 1 (Small circles are the observed log(odds ratios) \end{center} \includegraphics[height=6 in]{or.eps} \end{figure} \label{or} \clearpage \newpage \begin{figure} \begin{center} {\bf FIGURE II.} 95\% confidence intervals of the risk difference for MI (Rosiglitazone minus control) with 48 studies listed in Table 1 (Small circles are the observed risk differences) \end{center} \includegraphics[ height=6 in]{finalMI.eps} \end{figure} \label{rdMI} \end{document}