diabetes: Diabetes Diagnosis Data

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Diabetes Diagnosis Data

Description

The diabetes data frame has 286 rows and 3 columns. The data were gathered from a population-based pilot survey of diabetes in Cairo, Egypt, in which postprandial blood glucose measurements were obtained from a fingerstick on 286 subjects. Based on the WHO (World Health Organization) criteria, 88 subjects were classified as diseased and 198 as healthy.

Usage

diabetes

Format

The diabetes data frame contains the following columns:

marker

Postprandial blood glucose measurements (mg/dl) obtained from a fingerstick.

status

Disease status, with 1 identifying subjects diagnosed with diabetes.

age

Age in years.

References

Inácio de Carvalho, V., de Carvalho, M. and Branscum, A. (2017) Nonparametric Bayesian covariate-adjusted estimation of the Youden index. Biometrics, 73, 1279-1288.

Inácio de Carvalho, V., Jara, A., Hanson, T. E. and de Carvalho, M. (2013) Bayesian nonparametric ROC regression modeling. Bayesian Analysis, 8, 623-646.

Examples

data(diabetes)
plot(diabetes, pch = 20, main = "Diabetes Data")

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