Heart: Comparison of Test drug with Placebo for Heart Attack

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Description

Heart attack is a major cause of death in modern society. Aim is to check if test drug reduces primary response. It is also of interest to check whether drug causes improvement in LDL and HDL levels relative to placebo. Possible role of age and sex needs to be taken into account. Similar comments apply to diabetes and hypertension.

Usage

data(Heart)

Format

A data frame with 205 observations on the following 8 variables.

AGE

Age of the patient

SEX

Gender of the patiend

DIABETES

Diabetes indicator (you need to handle as a group)

HYPERTENSION

Hypertension indicator

LDL

Level of Low density lipid

HDL

Level of high density lipid

Primary_Response

number of occurrences of events such as death, hospitalization, second attack

Drug

Drug indicator for placebo or treatment

Details

Contingency tables, t-test, ANOVA, and ANOCOVA may be built for analysis of this data set.

Source

http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/hpg/nvjoshi/statspunedatabook/databook.html

gpk documentation built on May 2, 2019, 12:39 p.m.