blooddoping {ABPS}

Blood samples from an athlete convicted of doping.

Description

A dataset containing the result of the analysis of 13 blood samples, taken over a period of 5 years, of a female athlete who was convicted of doping on the basis of the Athlete Biological Passport.

Usage

blooddoping

Format

A data frame with 13 rows and 11 variables (including 10 haematological variables):

date

the date of test

HCT

haematocrit [%]

HGB

haemoglobin [g/dL]

MCH

mean corpuscular haemoglobin [pg]

MCHC

mean corpuscular haemoglobin concentration [g/dL]

MCV

mean corpuscular volume [fL]

RBC

red blood cell count [10^6/uL]

RETC

reticulocyte count [10^6/uL]

RETP

reticulocyte percentage [%]

OFFscore

OFF-score

ABPS

Abnormal Blood Profile Score

In November 2012, the athlete was convicted of doping by the Court of arbitration for Sport, the evidence showing at least two occurences of doping, in summer 2009 (shortly before the test of 2 July 2009) and in June 2011, likely using an agent such as recombinant erythropoietin (rhEPO).

Doping is indicated in particular by high haemoglobin values associated with very low reticulocyte % and high OFF scores (a combination of these two variables).

Note

The data tables published in the original source contain several typos, as confirmed by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). In particular, values for RETP in rows 8 and 10 were swapped and the MCHC value for row 7 was incorrect. This package's source code contains both the original data and the details of the corrections that were applied.

The ABPS values provided are very close (within <2%) to those obtained using the ABPS function, but some of them were likely calculated using different (older) versions of the ABPS code, which may explain some of these differences.

Source

https://jurisprudence.tas-cas.org/Shared%20Documents/2773.pdf