On this Picostat.com statistics page, you will find information about the respiratory data set which pertains to Data from a clinical trial comparing two treatments for a respiratory illness. The respiratory data set is found in the geepack R package. You can load the respiratory data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("respiratory"). This will load the data into a variable called respiratory. If R says the respiratory data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("geepack") and then attempt to reload the data. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the respiratory R data set. The size of this file is about 9,759 bytes.

Data from a clinical trial comparing two treatments for a respiratory illness

Description

The data are from a clinical trial of patients with respiratory illness, where 111 patients from two different clinics were randomized to receive either placebo or an active treatment. Patients were examined at baseline and at four visits during treatment. At each examination, respiratory status (categorized as 1 = good, 0 = poor) was determined.

Usage

data(respiratory)

Format

A data frame with 111 observations on the following 7 variables.

center

a numeric vector

id

a numeric vector

age

a numeric vector

baseline

a numeric vector

active

a numeric vector

center2

a numeric vector

female

a numeric vector

Examples

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

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Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.