vaccinesim: Vaccine Study Sample Data

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Vaccine Study Sample Data

Description

A sample dataset based on the simulations of a cholera vaccine trial in Heydrich-Perez et al. (2014) (\Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1111/biom.12184")}) except with 3000 individuals in 250 groups rather than 10000 in 500.

Format

a dataset with 6 variables and 3000 rows

Y

the outcome (0 - no cholera; 1 - cholera)

X1

an individual's age (in decades)

X2

an individual's distance from river

A

an indicator of vaccination (0 - no vaccine; 1 - vaccine)

B

an indicator of participation (0 - did not participant in vaccine trial, 1 - did participate)

group

group membership

References

Perez-Heydrich, C., Hudgens, M. G., Halloran, M. E., Clemens, J. D., Ali, M., & Emch, M. E. (2014). Assessing effects of cholera vaccination in the presence of interference. Biometrics, 70(3), 731-741.

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