childvisit {weightedScores}

Hospital Visit Data

Description

The response vector consists of quarterly numbers of hospital visits over a one year period for a child age at four or younger, and three baseline covariates are age, sex, and maternal smoking status. The sample size of this study is n=73 children.

Usage

data(childvisit)

Format

A data frame with 292 observations on the following 6 variables.

id

The child ID.

age

The age in months.

sex

The sex indicator.

matsmst

The maternal smoking status.

quarter

The time indicator.

hospvis

The response vector of quarterly numbers of hospital visits.

Source

Song P.X.K. (2007). Correlated Data Analysis: Modeling, Analytics, and Application. Correlated Data Analysis: Modeling, Analytics, and Application. Book Webpage/Supplementary Material. Springer, NY.