betablockers {nspmix}

Beta-blockers Data

Description

Contains the data of the 22-center clinical trial of beta-blockers for reducing mortality after myocardial infarction.

Format

A numeric matrix with four columns:

center: center identification code.

deaths: the number of deaths in the center.

total: the number of patients taking beta-blockers in the center.

treatment: 0 for control, and 1 for treatment.

Source

Aitkin, M. (1999). A general maximum likelihood analysis of variance components in generalized linear models. Biometrics, 55, 117-128.

References

Wang, Y. (2010). Maximum likelihood computation for fitting semiparametric mixture models. Statistics and Computing, 20, 75-86.

See Also

mlogit,cnmms.

Examples

data(betablockers)
x = mlogit(betablockers)
cnmms(x)