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In mreg: Fits Regression Models When the Outcome is Partially Missing

#' Subset of Arthritis Data
#'
#' @description This is a subset of 100 patients and variables from the clinical data
#' used in the paper below.
#' \emph{Not to be used in publications without
#'   permission of the authors.}
#'
#'   @format  A data frame with 943 observations on the following 8 variables.
#' \describe{
#' \item{\code{damaged}}{The number of radiologically damaged joints}
#'  \item{\code{intervisit.time}}{Time between clinic visits}
#'  \item{\code{esr.init}}{The first ESR measurement}
#'  \item{\code{art.dur.init}}{The duration of arthritis at first
#'    clinic visit}
#'  \item{\code{tender}}{Count of the number of tender joints}
#'  \item{\code{effused}}{Count of the number of effused joints}
#' \item{\code{ptno}}{Anonymous patient number}
#'   \item{\code{clinic.time}}{Total time spend under clinical care}
#' }
#'
#' @source Bond S, Farewell V, 2006, Exact Likelihood Estimation for a
#' Negative Binomial Regression Model with Missing Outcomes
#'
"public"