bacteriuria {gss}R Documentation

Treatment of Bacteriuria

Description

Bacteriuria patients were randomly assigned to two treatment groups. Weekly binary indicator of bacteriuria was recorded for every patient over 4 to 16 weeks. A total of 72 patients were represented in the data, with 36 each in the two treatment groups.

Usage

data(bacteriuria)

Format

A data frame containing 820 observations on the following variables.
id Identification of patients, a factor.
trt Treatments 1 or 2, a factor.
time Weeks after randomization.
infect Binary indicator of bacteriuria (bacteria in urine).

Source

Joe, H. (1997), Multivariate Models and Dependence Concepts. London: Chapman and Hall.

References

Gu and Ma (2003b), Generalized Nonparametric Mixed-Effect Models: Computation and Smoothing Parameter Selection. Available at http://stat.purdue.edu/~chong/manu.html.


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