[R] Efficient ways of finding functions and Breslow-Day test for homogeneity of the odds ratio

[Thomas Lumley]

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Tim Churches wrote:

> MJ Price, Social Medicine wrote:
>> I have been trying to find a function to calculate the Breslow-Day test for
>> homogeneity of the odds ratio in R. I know the test can be preformed in SAS
>> but i was wondering if anyone could help me to perform this in r.
>
> I don't recall seeing the Breslow-Day test anywhere in an R package, but
> the VCD package (available via CRAN) has a function called woolf_test()
> to calculate Woolf's test for homogeneity of ORs.
>

Both the (almost identical) meta-analysis packages also compute Woolf's test.

 	-thomas