Drug interaction study with oral contraceptives
A data frame with 44 observations on the following 6 variables.
ID
ID number for each of the women
StudyPeriod
1=first
or 2
=second
Treatment
Drug
or Placebo
EE
Bioavailability of the ethinyl estradiol component of the oral contraceptive (in pg*hr/ml)
ComparisonValues
Comparison values used for a Tukey nonadditivity plot
Residuals
Residuals used for a Tukey nonadditivity plot
Twenty-two female subjects were allocated randomly to one of two treatment sequences in a two period crossover design. The two treatments were a new Drug D or placebo, both given concomitantly with a standard oral contraceptive which was given in both study periods. The oral contraceptive has two components, ethinyl estradiol (EE) and norethindrone (NET). The purpose of the study was to evaluate whether the presence of Drug D affected the bioavailability of each of the oral contraceptive components. Note that our dataset does not include the NET variable.