amdat

<p>The data comprise ages in days at measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination and hospital admission for aseptic meningitis. There are 10 admissions in 10 children.</p>

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Various self-controlled case series models used to investigate
associations between time-varying exposures such as vaccines or
other drugs or non drug exposures and an adverse event can be
fitted. Detailed information on the self-controlled case series
method and its extensions with more examples can be found in
Farrington, P., Whitaker, H., and Ghebremichael Weldeselassie, Y.
(2018, ISBN: 978-1-4987-8159-6. Self-controlled Case Series studies:
A modelling Guide with R. Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC Press)
and <https://sccs-studies.info/index.html>.

Yonas Weldeselassie

SCCS

The Self-Controlled Case Series Method

amdat function

<p>A data frame containing 10 rows and 5 columns. The column names are 'case' (individual identifier), 'sta' (age on first day of the observation period), 'end' (age on last day of the observation period), 'am' (age at admission for aseptic meningitis, with a confirmed diagnosis of viral meningitis), and 'mmr' (age at mmr vaccination).</p>

amdat: Data on MMR and aseptic meningitis

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