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The data, 25 observations, are a subset from a larger data set collected on persons discharged from a selected Pennsylvania hospital as part of a retrospective chart review of antibiotic use in hospitals (Towensend et al., 1979, Rosner, 2000).
data(hosp)
A data frame with 25 observations on the following 9 variables. All variables are given as numerical vectors.
id
duration
age
sex
temp1
wbc1
antib
bact
serv
Don't confuse with the Barcelona 'Hospital stay data' aep
in package gamlss.
B. Rosner, Harvard University.
Rosner, B. (2000). Fundamentals of Biostatistics. Thomson Learning, Duxbury, CA, USA.
Townsend, T.R., Shapiro, M., Rosner, B., & Kass, E. H. (1979). Use of antimicrobial drugs in general hospitals. I. Description of population and definition of methods. Journal of Infectious Diseases 139 , 688-697.
data(hosp) glm(duration~age+temp1+wbc1, data=hosp)