Data set issued from a study of the adverse events of a drug on
117 patients affected by Crohn's disease (a chronic inflammatory
disease of the intestines).
Usage
data(CrohnD)
Format
A data frame with 117 observations on the following 9 variables.
ID
the numeric patient IDs
nrAdvE
the number of adverse events
BMI
Body MASS Index, i.e., weight[kg] / (height[m])^2.
height
in cm
country
a factor with levels 0 and 1
sex
the person's gender, a binary factor with levels
MF
age
in years, a numeric vector
weight
in kilograms, a numeric vector
treat
how CD was treated: a factor with levels
0, 1 and 2, meaning placebo, drug 1 and drug 2.
Source
form the authors of the reference, with permission by the original
data collecting agency.
References
Serigne N. Lô and Elvezio Ronchetti (2006).
Robust Second Order Accurate Inference for Generalized Linear Models.
Technical report, University of Geneva, Switzerland.