actg019 {BayesPPD}

AIDS Clinical Trial ACTG019 (1990).

Description

A dataset containing the ACTG019 clinical trial placebo group data (1990) in adults with asymptomatic HIV.

Usage

actg019

Format

A data frame with 404 rows and 4 variables:

outcome

binary variable with 1 indicating death, development of AIDS or ARC and 0 otherwise

age

patient age in years

race

binary variable with 1 indicating white and 0 otherwise

T4count

CD4 cell count (cell count per cubicmillimetre of serum)

Source

Chen, Ming-Hui, et al. "Prior Elicitation, Variable Selection and Bayesian Computation for Logistic Regression Models." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B, vol. 61, no. 1, 1999, pp. 223-242.