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toenail: Toenail infection treatment study

Description

The data come from a Multicenter study comparing two oral treatments for toenail infection. Patients were evaluated for the degree of separation of the nail. Patients were randomized into two treatments and were followed over seven visits - four in the first year and yearly thereafter. The patients have not been treated prior to the first visit so this should be regarded as the baseline.

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 1908 observations on the following 5 variables.

ID

ID of patient

outcome

0=none or mild seperation, 1=moderate or severe

treatment

the treatment A=0 or B=1

month

time of the visit (not exactly monthly intervals hence not round numbers)

visit

the number of the visit

References

Lesaffre, E. and Spiessens, B. (2001). On the effect of the number of quadrature points in a logistic random-effects model: An example. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C, 50, 325-335.

G. Fitzmaurice, N. Laird and J. Ware (2004) Applied Longitudinal Analysis, Wiley