aids                   package:gss                   R Documentation

_A_I_D_S _I_n_c_u_b_a_t_i_o_n

_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     A data set collected by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
     concerning AIDS patients who were infected with the HIV virus
     through blood transfusion.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(aids)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     A data frame containing 295 observations on the following
     variables.

       'incu'  Time from HIV infection to AIDS diagnosis.
       'infe'  Time from HIV infection to end of data collection (July 1986).
       'age'   Age at time of blood transfusion.

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     Wang, M.-C. (1989), A semiparametric model for randomly truncated
     data.  _Journal of the American Statistical Association_, *84*,
     742-748.

