tuberculosis_vaccine_df: BCG Vaccine Against Tuberculosis

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BCG Vaccine Against Tuberculosis

Description

This dataset, tuberculosis_vaccine_df, is a data frame containing results from 13 clinical trials examining the effectiveness of the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine against tuberculosis.

Usage

data(tuberculosis_vaccine_df)

Format

A data frame with 13 observations and 9 variables:

trial

Trial identifier number (integer vector)

author

Study author(s) (character vector)

year

Year of publication (integer vector)

tpos

Number of TB positive cases in vaccinated group (integer vector)

tneg

Number of TB negative cases in vaccinated group (integer vector)

cpos

Number of TB positive cases in control group (integer vector)

cneg

Number of TB negative cases in control group (integer vector)

ablat

Absolute latitude of study location (integer vector)

alloc

Method of treatment allocation (character vector)

Details

The dataset name has been kept as 'tuberculosis_vaccine_df' to avoid confusion with other datasets in the R ecosystem. This naming convention helps distinguish this dataset as part of the PulmoDataSets package and assists users in identifying its specific characteristics. The suffix 'df' indicates that the dataset is a data frame. The original content has not been modified in any way.

Source

Data taken from the metadat package version 1.4-0

PulmoDataSets documentation built on Sept. 9, 2025, 5:41 p.m.