respiratory {geepack}R Documentation

Data from a clinical trial comparing two treatments for a respiratory illness

Description

The data are from a clinical trial of patients with respiratory illness, where 111 patients from two different clinics were randomized to receive either placebo or an active treatment. Patients were examined at baseline and at four visits during treatment. At each examination, respiratory status (categorized as 1 = good, 0 = poor) was determined.

Usage

data(respiratory)

Format

A data frame with 111 observations on the following 7 variables.

center
a numeric vector
id
a numeric vector
age
a numeric vector
baseline
a numeric vector
active
a numeric vector
center2
a numeric vector
female
a numeric vector

Examples

data(respiratory)
## maybe str(respiratory) ; plot(respiratory) ...

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