bacteriuria               package:gss               R Documentation

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

     Bacteriuria patients were randomly assigned to two treatment
     groups.  Weekly binary indicator of bacteriuria was recorded for
     every patient over 4 to 16 weeks.  A total of 72 patients were
     represented in the data, with 36 each in the two treatment groups.

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

     data(bacteriuria)

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

     A data frame containing 820 observations on the following
     variables.

       'id'      Identification of patients, a factor.
       'trt'     Treatments 1 or 2, a factor.
       'time'    Weeks after randomization.
       'infect'  Binary indicator of bacteriuria (bacteria in urine).

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

     Joe, H. (1997), _Multivariate Models and Dependence Concepts_.
     London: Chapman and Hall.

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Gu, C. and Ma, P. (2005), Generalized nonparametric mixed-effect
     models: computation and smoothing parameter selection. _Journal of
     Computational and Graphical Statistics_, *14*, 485-504.

