appetite {nparcomp}

Appetite scores of colorectal cancer patients

Description

Data from one of the quality of life measurements collected from colorectal cancer patients enrolled in the North Central Cancer Treatment Group phase III trials N9741. The patient received three treatment regimens: IFL (irinotecan, bolus fluorouracil, and leucovorin), FOLFOX (infused fluorouracil, leucovorin, and ocaliplatin), and IROX (irinotecan and oxaliplatin).

Usage

data(appetite)

Format

A data frame with 174 observations on the following 2 variables.

Group

A factor with levels FOLFOX IFL IROX.

Score

A numeric vector containing the appetite scores.

Details

The objective is to test whether there are differences between the treatment regimens in terms of different appetite scores.

Source

Ryu, E. (2009): Simultaneous confidence intervals using ordinal effect measures for ordered categorical outcomes. Statistics In Medicine, 28(25), 3179-3188.

Examples

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library(nparcomp)
data(appetite)

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