Oncho

Study of onchocerciasis ("river blindness") in Sierra Leone, in which subjects were classified according
to whether they lived in villages in savannah or rainforest area.

datasets

A toolbox for making R functions and capabilities more
accessible to students and professionals from Epidemiology and
Public Health related disciplines. Includes a function to report
coefficients and confidence intervals from models using robust
standard errors (when available), functions that expand 'ggplot2'
plots and functions relevant for introductory papers in Epidemiology
or Public Health. Please note that use of the
provided data sets is for educational purposes only.

Josie Athens

pubh

A Toolbox for Public Health and Epidemiology

Frank Harell

John Fox

R-Core 

Oncho function

A labelled tibble with 1302 rows and 7 variables:<dl>
<dt>id</dt>
<dd>Subject ID.</dd><dt>mf</dt>
<dd>Infected with Onchocerciasis volvulus, factor with levels "Not-infected" and "Infected".</dd><dt>area</dt>
<dd>Area of residence, factor with levels "Savannah" and "Rainforest".</dd><dt>agegrp</dt>
<dd>Age group in years, factor with levels "5-9", "10-19", "20-39" and "40+".</dd><dt>sex</dt>
<dd>Subject sex, factor with levels "Male" and "Female".</dd><dt>mfload</dt>
<dd>Microfiliariae load.</dd><dt>lesions</dt>
<dd>Severe eye lesions, factor with levels "No" and "Yes".</dd>
</dl>

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Onchocerciasis in Sierra Leone. — Oncho

A labelled tibble with 1302 rows and 7 variables:<dl>
<dt>id</dt>
<dd>Subject ID.</dd>

<dt>mf</dt>
<dd>Infected with Onchocerciasis volvulus, factor with levels "Not-infected" and "Infected".</dd>

<dt>area</dt>
<dd>Area of residence, factor with levels "Savannah" and "Rainforest".</dd>

<dt>agegrp</dt>
<dd>Age group in years, factor with levels "5-9", "10-19", "20-39" and "40+".</dd>

<dt>sex</dt>
<dd>Subject sex, factor with levels "Male" and "Female".</dd>

<dt>mfload</dt>
<dd>Microfiliariae load.</dd>

<dt>lesions</dt>
<dd>Severe eye lesions, factor with levels "No" and "Yes".</dd>


</dl>

Oncho: Onchocerciasis in Sierra Leone.

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