cgd0: Chronic Granulotomous Disease data
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cgd0	R Documentation

Chronic Granulotomous Disease data

Description

Data are from a placebo controlled trial of gamma interferon in chronic granulotomous disease (CGD). Contains the data on time to serious infections observed through end of study for each patient.

Usage

cgd0

Format

id: subject identification number
center: enrolling center
random: date of randomization
treatment: placebo or gamma interferon
sex: sex
age: age in years, at study entry
height: height in cm at study entry
weight: weight in kg at study entry
inherit: pattern of inheritance
steroids: use of steroids at study entry,1=yes
propylac: use of prophylactic antibiotics at study entry
hos.cat: a categorization of the centers into 4 groups
futime: days to last follow-up
etime1-etime7: up to 7 infection times for the subject

Details

The cgdraw data set (this one) is in the form found in the references, with one line per patient and no recoding of the variables.

The cgd data set has been further processed so as to have one line per event, with covariates such as center recoded as factors to include meaningful labels.