BayesLCA (version 1.9)

Alzheimer: Symptoms of Patients Suffering from Alzheimer's Syndrome

Description

Presence or absence of 6 symptoms of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in 240 patients diagnosed with early onset AD conducted in the Mercer Institute in St. James's Hospital, Dublin.

Usage

data(Alzheimer)

Format

A binary matrix, consisting of 240 rows and 6 columns, with each row denoting an individual and each column denoting the presence/absence of one of the 6 symptoms: Hallucination, Activity, Aggression, Agitation, Diurnal and Affective. A 1 denotes the presence of a symptom, a 0 the absence.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(Alzheimer)
fit2 <- blca.em(Alzheimer, 2)
summary(fit2)

fit3<- blca.em(Alzheimer, 3, restarts=20)
summary(fit3)

# }