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bacteriuria: Treatment of Bacteriuria

Description

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.

Usage

data(bacteriuria)

Arguments

Format

A data frame containing 820 observations on the following variables.

idIdentification of patients, a factor.
trtTreatments 1 or 2, a factor.
timeWeeks after randomization.
infectBinary indicator of bacteriuria (bacteria in urine).

References

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.