whas500 {smoothHR}

Worcester Heart Attack Study WHAS500 Data

Description

Data from the Worcester Heart Attack Study

Usage

data(whas500)

Format

A data frame with 500 observations with 22 variables.

Details

Data from the Worcester Heart Attack Study whose main goal was to describe factors associated with trends over time in the incidence and survival rates following hospital admission for acute myocardial infarction.

Source

Worcester Heart Attack Study data from Dr. Robert J. Goldberg of the Department of Cardiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

References

Hosmer, D. W. and Lemeshow, S. and May, S. (2008). Applied Survival Analysis: Regression Modeling of Time to Event Data: Second Edition, John Wiley and Sons Inc., New York, NY.

Examples

data(whas500)