AOD: Subset of Alcohol and Other Drug treatment data
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A small subset of the data from McCaffrey et al. (2013).

data(AOD)

A data frame with 600 observations on the following 10 variables.

treat: Treatment that each study subject received. Either community, metcbt5, or scy.
suf12: outcome variable, substance use frequency at 12 month follow-up
illact: covariate, illicit activities scale
crimjust: covariate, criminal justice involvement
subprob: covariate, substance use problem scale
subdep: covariate, substance use dependence scale
white: 1 if non-Hispanic white, 0 otherwise

McCaffrey, DF, BA Griffin, D Almirall, ME Slaughter, R Ramchand and LF Burgette (2013). A tutorial on propensity score estimation for multiple treatments using generalized boosted models. Statistics in Medicine.

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