Heart {lbreg}

Heart Dataset

Description

Heart attack data from the ASSENT-2 study.

Usage

data("Heart")

Format

A data frame with 16,949 observations on the following 5 variables.

Heart

binary response; 1 = death

age

categorized into <65, 65-75 or >75 years

severity

Killip class I, II, or III/IV

region

code for three USA regions

onset

treatment delay categorized into <2, 2-4 or >4 hours

Source

http://biostatistics.oxfordjournals.org/content/13/1/179/suppl/DC1

References

ASSENT-2 INVESTIGATORS (1999). Single-bolus tenecteplase compared with front-loaded alteplase in acute myocardial infarction: the ASSENT-2 double-blind randomised trial. Lancet 354, 716-722.

Ian C. Marschner and Alexandra C. Gillett (2012) Relative risk regression: reliable and flexible methods for log-binomial models. Biostatistics 13, 179-192

Examples

data(Heart)
dim(Heart)
names(Heart)