nursing.home: Length of stay in a nursing home

Usage Format Source Examples

Usage

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data("nursing.home")

Format

A data frame with 1601 observations on the following 13 variables.

stay

numeric; length of stay measured in days

age

numeric; age in years

rx

a factor with levels Control Intervention

gender

a factor with levels Female Male

married

a factor with levels Not Married Married

health

numeric; health status 2 = second best,...,5 = worst

censor

a factor with levels Discharged Censored

cens

Numeric; discharge indicator. 0 = not discharged, 1 = discharged

Source

Case Studies in Biometry, 1994, Nicholas Lange, Louise Ryan and Lynne Billard, David Brillinger, Loveday Conquest, Joel Greenhouse. Data from Chapter 12, Morris et al.

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