painrelief: painrelief

In julianfaraway/brinla: Bayesian Regression with INLA

painrelief

Description

from an experiment examining the effects of codeine and acupuncture on post-operative dental pain in male subjects (Kutner et al., 2004)

Usage

data(painrelief)

Format

A data frame with 4 columns and 32 rows. The columns are:

• PainLevel: Pain level from 1 to 8.

• Codeine: Whether use codeine or not. 1: a codeine capsule; 2: a sugar capsule.

• Acupuncture: Acupuncture method. 1: apply to 2 inactive acupuncture points; 2: apply to 2 active acupuncture points.

• Relief: Pain relief score.

Details

The study used a randomized block design with two treatment factors occur- ring in a factorial structure. Both treatment factors have two levels. The variable Codeine has two groups: take a codeine capsule or a sugar capsule. The variable Acupuncture has two groups: apply to two inactive acupuncture points or two active acupuncture points.

References

Kutner, M. H., C. J. Nachtsheim, J. Neter, and W. Li (2004). Applied Linear Statistical Models (5th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill Irwin.

Examples

data(painrelief)

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