actg036: AIDS Clinical Trial ACTG036 (1991).

actg036R Documentation

AIDS Clinical Trial ACTG036 (1991).

Description

A dataset containing the ACTG036 clinical trial data (1991) comparing zidovudine (AZT) with a placebo in asymptomatic patients with hereditary coagulation disorders and HIV infection. The ACTG036 trial had the same response variable and covariates as the ACTG019 study. The ATCG019 data can be used as a historical dataset.

Usage

actg036

Format

A data frame with 183 rows and 5 variables:

outcome

binary variable with 1 indicating death, development of AIDS or ARC and 0 otherwise

treat

binary variable with 1 indicating Zidovudine (AZT) treatment and 0 indicating placebo

age

patient age in years

race

binary variable with 1 indicating white and 0 otherwise

T4count

CD4 cell count (cell count per cubicmillimetre of serum)

Source

Chen, Ming-Hui, et al. "Prior Elicitation, Variable Selection and Bayesian Computation for Logistic Regression Models." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B, vol. 61, no. 1, 1999, pp. 223-242.


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