bacteria {mdhglm}

Bacteria Data

Description

Tests of the presence of the bacteria H. influenzae in children with otitis media in the Northern Territory of Australia (Ripley, et al., 2016).

Usage

data("bacteria")

Format

A data frame with 220 observations on the following 6 variables.

y

a factor with levels n (absence of bacteria) and y (preence of bacteria)

ap

a factor with levels a (active) and p (placebo)

hilo

a factor with levels hi (high compliance) and lo (low compliance)

week

week of test

ID

subjects identifier

trt

a factor with levels placebo, drug and drug+

References

Ripley, B., Venables, B., Bates, D.M., Hornik, K., Gebhardt, A. and Firsth, D. (2016). MASS: Support Functions and Datasets for Venables and Ripley's MASS. R package version 7.3-45.