CD4 {KFPCA}R Documentation

CD4 cell counts

Description

A dataset containing the logarithm of CD4 cell counts for 190 patients with AIDS from June 1997 to January 2002. The data come from a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) study by Wohl et al. (2005) and can be obtained from Cao et al. (2015).

Usage

CD4

Format

A data frame with 741 rows and 3 variables:

PATIENT

Patient ID.

CD4OBS

Logarithm of CD4 cell counts.

CD4DATE

Day of measurement.

References

David A. Wohl, Donglin Zeng, Paul Stewart, Nicolas Glomb, Timothy Alcorn, Suzanne Jones, Jean Handy, Susan Fiscus, Adriana Weinberg, Deepthiman Gowda, and Charles van der Horst (2005). "Cytomegalovirus viremia, mortality, and end-organ disease among patients with aids receiving potent antiretroviral therapies." Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 38(5):538-544.

Hongyuan Cao, Donglin Zeng, and Jason P. Fine (2015). "Regression analysis of sparse asynchronous longitudinal data." Journal of The Royal Statistical Society Series B-statistical Methodology, 77(4):755-776.


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