R/BMACS.R

In npmlda: Nonparametric Models for Longitudinal Data

#' BMACS CD4 dataset
#'
#' This dataset is from the Baltimore site of the Multi-center AIDS Cohort Study (BMACS), which included 400 homosexual men who were infected by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) between 1984 and 1991.
#'
#' \itemize{
#'   \item ID.      Subject ID
#'   \item Time.    Subject's study visit time
#'   \item Smoke.   Cigarette baseline smoking status
#'   \item age.     Age at study enrollment
#'   \item preCD4.  Pre-infection CD4 percentage
#'    \item CD4.     CD4 percentage at the time of visit
#' }
#'
#' @docType data
#' @keywords datasets
#' @name BMACS
#' @usage data(BMACS)
#' @format A data frame with 1817 rows and 6 variables.
#' @references Kaslow, R. A., Ostrow, D. G., Detels, R., Phair, J. P., Polk, B. F. and Rinaldo, C. R. The Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study: rationale, organization and selected characteristics of the participants. American Journal of Epidemiology, 126:310-318, 1987.
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