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[R-meta] Include a study with point estimate and 95% CI into a meta-anlaysis for incidence rates

Dear Thao,

You could try to back-calculate the number of cases and total person time from the reported results. Do you have any information how the CI (16.2 to 23.6) was computed? It is not symmetric around the point estimate (19.6), so it might have been computed based on the log incidence rate or a Poisson regression model using a log link. But there are other ways of computing such a CI, for example using the square-root transformed rate or using the Freeman-Tukey transformation. So, any indication how the authors actually computed the CI would be useful.

Best,
Wolfgang