Evans: Evans County dataset

In lbreg: Log-Binomial Regression with Constrained Optimization

Description

Data from cohort study in which white males in Evans County were followed for 7 years, with coronary heart disease as the outcome of interest.

Usage

data("Evans")

Format

A data frame with 609 observations on the following 9 variables.

CDH

outcome variable; 1 = coronary heart disease

CAT

1 = high, 0 = normal catecholamine level

AGE

age (in years)

CHL

cholesterol, mg/dl

SMK

1 = subject has ever smoked

ECG

1 = presence of electrocardiogram abnormality

DBP

diastolic blood pressure, mmHg

SBP

systolic blood pressure, mmHg

HPT

1 = SBP greater than or equal to 160 or DBP greater than or equal to 95

Source

http://web1.sph.emory.edu/dkleinb/logreg3.htm#data

References

D. Kleinbaum and M. Klein (2010) Survival Analysis: A Self-Learning Text. 3rd ed. Springer.

Examples

data(Evans)
dim(Evans)
names(Evans)

lbreg documentation built on Dec. 26, 2019, 5:06 p.m.