epil: Seizure Counts for Epileptics

Description Usage Format Source References

Description

The data set consists of seizure counts for 59 individuals with epilepsy. Counts were recorded for four two-week periods (8 weeks total). Age is the only covariate.

Usage

1

Format

A data.frame with 236 rows and 9 variables (columns):

y

the count for the 2-week period.

trt

treatment, "placebo" or "progabide".

base

the counts in the baseline 8-week period.

age

subject's age, in years.

V4

0/1 indicator variable of period 4.

subject

subject number, 1 to 59.

period

period, 1 to 4.

lbase

log-counts for the baseline period, centred to have zero mean.

lage

log-ages, centred to have zero mean.

Source

Thall, P. F. and Vail, S. C. (1990) Some covariance models for longitudinal count data with over-dispersion. Biometrics 46, 657–671.

References

Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (2002) Modern Applied Statistics with S. Fourth Edition. Springer.


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