For each of 2,446 drugs in the MHRA database (column 1), the number of cases with amnesia as an adverse event (column 2), and the number of cases with other adverse event for this drug (column 3). In total, 682,648 adverse drug reactions were reported, among them 2,044 cases of amnesia.
Note: In future versions, this dataset will be removed. Please use the
amnesia
dataset from package
DiscreteDatasets
.
data(amnesia)
A data frame with 2,446 rows representing drugs with the following three columns:
The name of the drug.
Number of the amnesia cases reported for the drug.
Number of other adverse drug reactions reported for the drug.
The data was collected from the Drug Analysis Prints published by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), by Heller & Gur. See references for more details.
R. Heller and H. Gur (2011). False discovery rate controlling procedures for discrete tests. arXiv:1112.4627v2 (preprint).