UTIdata: Data set for Unstructured Treatment Interruption Study

In lmec: Linear Mixed-Effects Models with Censored Responses

Description

Data set from a study of Unstructured Treatment Interruption in HIV-infected adolescents in four institutions in the US. The main outcome is the HIV-1 RNA viral load, which is subject to censoring below the lower limit of detection of the assay (50 copies/mL). The censored observations are indicated by the variable RNAcens

Usage

data(UTIdata)

Format

A data frame with 373 observations on the following 5 variables.

Patid

patient ID

Days.after.TI

days after treatment interruption

Fup

follow-up months

RNA

viral load RNA

RNAcens

censoring indicator for viral load

References

Saitoh, A., Foca, M, et al. (2008), Clinical outcome in perinatally acquired HIV-infected children and adolescents after unstructured treatment interruption, Pediatrics,121, e513-e521.

Examples

data(UTIdata)
## maybe str(UTIdata) ; plot(UTIdata) ...

Example output

Loading required package: mvtnorm

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