GmooG (version 0.7)

malaria: Comparison of four tests for malaria

Description

Studying magneto-optical diagnosis of symptomatic malaria in Papua New Guinea.

Usage

data(malaria)

Format

A data frame with 956 observations on the following 24 variables.

ID

Patient ID

Collect_Date

Date blood sample collected

Age

Patient age

Weight

Patient weight

Sex

Patient sex

Temperature

ancillary temperature in degrees Centigrade

Hb

Patient hemoglobin level in g/dL

illMalaria

Malaria in last two weeks

RDT1

HRP2 line positive

RDT2

LDH line positive

RDTb

HRP and LDH lines positive

Pf

qPCR copy number for P. falciparum per microL of blood

Pv

qPCR copy number for P. vivax in copies per microL of blood

LM_Pf

final expert light microscopy result for P. falciparum in parasites per microL of blood

LM_Pfg

final expert light microscopy result for P. falciparum gametocytes in parasites per microL of blood

LM_Pv

final expert light microscopy result for P. vivax in parasites per microL of blood

LM_Pvg

final expert light microscopy result for P. vivax gametocytes in parasites per microL of blood

LM_Pm

final expert light microscopy result for P. malariae in parasites per microL of blood

LM_Po

final expert light microscopy result for P. ovale in parasites per microL of blood

AveMO

Average magneto-optical signalof blood aliquots #1,2,3 in mV/V

sdMO

Standard deviation of the magneto-optical signals of blood aliquots #1,2,3 in mV/V

MO1

Magneto-optical signal of blood aliquot #1 in mV/V

MO2

Magneto-optical signal of blood aliquot #2 in mV/V

MO3

Magneto-optical signal of blood aliquot #3 in mV/V

Details

This dataset is used in Chapter 19, "Comparing tests for malaria".

Examples

data(malaria, package="GmooG")
with(malaria, summary(AveMO))