| actg036 {BayesPPD} | R Documentation |
AIDS Clinical Trial ACTG036 (1991).
Description
A dataset containing the ACTG036 clinical trial data (1991) comparing zidovudine (AZT) with a placebo in asymptomatic patients with hereditary coagulation disorders and HIV infection. The ACTG036 trial had the same response variable and covariates as the ACTG019 study. The ATCG019 data can be used as a historical dataset.
Usage
actg036
Format
A data frame with 183 rows and 5 variables:
- outcome
binary variable with 1 indicating death, development of AIDS or ARC and 0 otherwise
- treat
binary variable with 1 indicating Zidovudine (AZT) treatment and 0 indicating placebo
- 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.