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Coronary Artery Surgery Study data

Description

This data from the Coronary Artery Surgery Study evaluates two tests to determine the presence or absence of coronary artery disease by comparing to coronary angiography, the gold standard. Test 1 is an exercise stress test and Test 2 is a clinical history of chest pain.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 871 rows and 3 columns:

exercise

Dichotomous result on exercise stress testing.

cp

Presence of absence of chest pain based on medical history.

angio

Dichotomous result on coronary angiography.

Details

All three variables are dichotomous. 1 indicates a positive result; 0 indicates a negative result.

This data was originally presented in Weiner et al. (1979).

Source

doi:10.1056/NEJM197908023010502

References

Weiner et al. (1979)) N Engl J Med. 1979;301(5):230-5 doi:10.1056/NEJM197908023010502