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wesdr: Progression of Diabetic Retinopathy

Description

Data derived from the Wisconsin Epidemiological Study of Diabetic Retinopathy.

Usage

data(wesdr)

Arguments

Format

A data frame containing 669 observations on the following variables.

durDuration of diabetes at baseline, in years.
glyPercent of glycosylated hemoglobin at baseline.
bmiBody mass index at baseline.
retBinary indicator of retinopathy progression at first follow-up.

References

Klein, R., Klein, B. E. K., Moss, S. E., Davis, M. D., and DeMets, D. L. (1988), Glycosylated hemoglobin predicts the incidence and progression of diabetic retinopathy. Journal of the American Medical Association, 260, 2864--2871.

Klein, R., Klein, B. E. K., Moss, S. E., Davis, M. D., and DeMets, D. L. (1989), The Wisconsin Epidemiologic Study of Diabetic Retinopathy. X. Four incidence and progression of diabetic retinopathy when age at diagnosis is 30 or more years. Archive Ophthalmology, 107, 244--249.

Wahba, G., Wang, Y., Gu, C., Klein, R., and Klein, B. E. K. (1995), Smoothing spline ANOVA for exponential families, with application to the Wisconsin Epidemiological Study of Diabetic Retinopathy. The Annals of Statistics, 23, 1865--1895.