stent365: Stents for the treatment of stroke

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Description

An experiment that studies effectiveness of stents in treating patients at risk of stroke with some unexpected results. These data represent the results 365 days after stroke.

Usage

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data("stent365")

Format

A data frame with 451 observations on the following 2 variables.

group

a factor with levels control treatment

outcome

a factor with levels no event stroke

Source

Chimowitz MI, Lynn MJ, Derdeyn CP, et al. 2011. Stenting versus Aggressive Med- ical Therapy for Intracranial Arterial Stenosis. New England Journal of Medicine 365:993- 1003. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1105335. NY Times article reporting on the study: www.nytimes.com/2011/09/08/health/research/08stent.html.

Examples

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data(stent365)
## maybe str(stent365) ; plot(stent365) ...

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