public {mreg}

Subset of Arthritis Data

Description

This is a subset of 100 patients and variables from the clinical data used in the paper below. Not to be used in publications without permission of the authors.

@format A data frame with 943 observations on the following 8 variables.

damaged

The number of radiologically damaged joints

intervisit.time

Time between clinic visits

esr.init

The first ESR measurement

art.dur.init

The duration of arthritis at first clinic visit

tender

Count of the number of tender joints

effused

Count of the number of effused joints

ptno

Anonymous patient number

clinic.time

Total time spend under clinical care

Usage

public

Format

An object of class data.frame with 943 rows and 8 columns.

Source

Bond S, Farewell V, 2006, Exact Likelihood Estimation for a Negative Binomial Regression Model with Missing Outcomes