hivDK: hivDK: seroconversion in a cohort of Danish men
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hivDK

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hivDK: seroconversion in a cohort of Danish men

Description

Data from a survey of HIV-positivity of a cohort of Danish men followed by regular tests from 1983 to 1989.

Usage

  data(hivDK)

Format

A data frame with 297 observations on the following 7 variables.

id: ID of the person
entry: Date of entry to the study. Date variable.
well: Date last seen seronegative. Date variable.
ill: Date first seen seroconverted. Date variable.
bth: Year of birth minus 1950.
pyr: Annual number of sexual partners.
us: Indicator of wheter the person has visited the USA.

Source

Mads Melbye, Statens Seruminstitut.

References

Becker N.G. and Melbye M.: Use of a log-linear model to compute the empirical survival curve from interval-censored data, with application to data on tests for HIV-positivity, Australian Journal of Statistics, 33, 125–133, 1990.

Melbye M., Biggar R.J., Ebbesen P., Sarngadharan M.G., Weiss S.H., Gallo R.C. and Blattner W.A.: Seroepidemiology of HTLV-III antibody in Danish homosexual men: prevalence, transmission and disease outcome. British Medical Journal, 289, 573–575, 1984.