Excuse me for showing my ignorance...
I've been asked by some colleagues about data for a meta-analysis. They
want to compare the odds ratio for survival of insects on two hosts.
However, the reported data is often of the form of the proportion of
survivors across several replicates, with a standard error (i.e. over
the replicates). They would therefore need this transforming onto the
odds ratio scale. This looks fairly straightforward, but there's
usually some important detail I've missed. The simple question - can
anyone point to some literature on this, so I don't have to think it all
through from scratch?
Reply to me rather than the list - I'll summarise the replies to the
list if they seem interesting.
Bob
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Bob O'Hara
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