addicts: Addicts dataset

In dave-harrington/eventtimedata: Event time data for teaching

Description

Dataset from an Australian study of the association of success of treatment for heroin addiction and type of treatment clinic.

Usage

data("addicts")

Format

A data frame with 238 observations on the following 6 variables.

id

subject id

clinic

methadone clinic, 1 or 2

status

event status indicator; 0 = censored, 1 = dropout

survtime

time in days at the clinic until the subject dropped out (event) or was censored

prison

prior prison record, 0 = no, 1 = yes

maxdose

maximum methadone dose, mg/day

Details

Data are a subset of 2007 study by Gjersing et al.

Source

Data from Professor Rui Wang, Harvard University, personal communication

References

Capelhorn JR, McNeill DR, and Kleinbaum DG. (1993) Clinic policy and retention in methadone maintenancy. Int J Addict. 1993. 28(1): 73-89.

Examples

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

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