osteoarthritis {MatchThem}

Data of 2,585 Participants in the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI) Project

Description

osteoarthritis includes demographic data of 2,585 units (individuals) with or at risk of knee osteoarthritis. The recorded data has missing values in body mass index (BMI, a quantitative variable), race (RAC, a categorical qualitative variable), smoking status (SMK, a binary qualitative variable), and knee osteoarthritis status at follow-up (KOA, a binary qualitative variable).

Usage

osteoarthritis

Format

This dataset contains 2,585 rows and 7 columns. Each row presents data of an unit (individual) and each column presents data of a characteristic of that unit. The columns are:

AGE

Age of each unit (individual);

SEX

Gender of each unit (individual), coded as 0 (female) and 1 (male);

BMI

Estimated body mass index of each unit (individual);

RAC

Race of each unit (individual), coded as 0 (other), 1 (Caucasian), 2 (African American), and 3 (Asian);

SMK

The smoking status of each unit (individual), coded as 0 (non-smoker) and 1 (smoker);

OSP

Osteoporosis status of each unit (individual) at baseline, coded as 0 (negative) and 1 (positive); and

KOA

Knee osteoarthritis status of each unit (individual) in the follow-up, coded as 0 (at risk) and 1 (diagnosed).

Source

The information presented in the osteoarthritis dataset is based on the publicly available data of the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI) project (see https://nda.nih.gov/oai/ for details), with changes.