Subset of Alcohol and Other Drug treatment data

Description

A small subset of the data from McCaffrey et al. (2013).

Usage

data(AOD)

Format

A data frame with 600 observations on the following 10 variables.

treat

Treatment that each study subject received. Either community, metcbt5, or scy.

suf12

outcome variable, substance use frequency at 12 month follow-up

illact

covariate, illicit activities scale

crimjust

covariate, criminal justice involvement

subprob

covariate, substance use problem scale

subdep

covariate, substance use dependence scale

white

1 if non-Hispanic white, 0 otherwise

References

McCaffrey, DF, BA Griffin, D Almirall, ME Slaughter, R Ramchand and LF Burgette (2013). A tutorial on propensity score estimation for multiple treatments using generalized boosted models. Statistics in Medicine.

Results