bacteriuria {gss}

Treatment of Bacteriuria

Description

Bacteriuria patients were randomly assigned to two treatment groups. Weekly binary indicator of bacteriuria was recorded for every patient over 4 to 16 weeks. A total of 72 patients were represented in the data, with 36 each in the two treatment groups.

Usage

data(bacteriuria)

Format

A data frame containing 820 observations on the following variables.

id	Identification of patients, a factor.
trt	Treatments 1 or 2, a factor.
time	Weeks after randomization.
infect	Binary indicator of bacteriuria (bacteria in urine).

Source

Joe, H. (1997), Multivariate Models and Dependence Concepts. London: Chapman and Hall.

References

Gu, C. and Ma, P. (2005), Generalized nonparametric mixed-effect models: computation and smoothing parameter selection. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 14, 485–504.