leprosy {msos}

Leprosy Patients

Description

Dataset with leprosy patients found in Snedecor and Cochran [1989]. There were 30 patients, randomly allocated to three groups of 10. The first group received drug A, the second drug D, and the third group received a placebo. Each person had their bacterial count taken before and after receiving the treatment.

Usage

leprosy

Format

A double matrix with 30 observations on the following 3 variables.

Before

Bacterial count taken before receiving the treatment.

After

Bacterial count taken after receiving the treatment.

Group

Group Coding: 0 = Drug A, 1 = Drug B, 2 = Placebo

Source

George W. Snedecor and William G. Cochran. Statistical Methods. Iowa State University Press, Ames, Iowa, eighth edition, 1989.