icu {pARtial}R Documentation

ICU Data

Description

The ICU data frame has 200 rows and 7 columns.

Usage

data(ICU)

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

STA
factor, vital status (0 = Lived, 1 = Died).
SEX
factor, sex (0 = male, 1 = female).
RACE
factor, Race (1 = white, 2 = black, 3 = other).
CAN
factor, Cancer part of present problem (0 = No, 1 = Yes).
INF
factor, Infection probable at ICU admission (0 = No, 1 = Yes).
TYP
factor, Type of admission (0 = Elective, 1 = Emergency).
LOC
factor, Level of consciousness at ICU admission (0 = no coma, 1 = deep stupor or coma).

Details

The ICU data set consists of a sample of 200 subjects who were part of a much larger study on survival of patients following admission to an adult intensive care unit (ICU). The data set presented here contains all variables which significantly explained the vital status at hospital discharge. The data were collected at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts. These data are copyrighted by John Wiley & Sons Inc. and must be acknowledged and used accordingly.

Source

Hosmer and Lemeshow (2000), Applied Logistic Regression: Second Edition.

References

D.W. Hosmer and S. Lemeshow (2000), Applied Logistic Regression. New York: Wiley Series in Probability and Mathematical Statistics


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