stroke

All cases of stroke in Tartu, Estonia, during the period 1991--1993,
 with follow-up until January 1, 1996.

datasets

Data sets and scripts for text examples and exercises in
P. Dalgaard (2008), `Introductory Statistics with R', 2nd ed., Springer Verlag, ISBN 978-0387790534.

Peter Dalgaard

ISwR

Introductory Statistics with R

stroke function

A data frame with 829 observations on the following 10 variables.<dl>
 <dt><code>sex</code></dt>
<dd>a factor with levels <code>Female</code> and <code>Male</code>.</dd> <dt><code>died</code></dt>
<dd>a Date, date of death.</dd> <dt><code>dstr</code></dt>
<dd>a Date, date of stroke.</dd> <dt><code>age</code></dt>
<dd>a numeric vector, age at stroke.</dd> <dt><code>dgn</code></dt>
<dd>a factor, diagnosis, with levels <code>ICH</code>
 (intracranial haemorrhage), <code>ID</code> (unidentified). <code>INF</code>
 (infarction, ischaemic), <code>SAH</code> (subarchnoid haemorrhage).</dd> <dt><code>coma</code></dt>
<dd>a factor with levels <code>No</code> and <code>Yes</code>,
 indicating whether patient was in coma after the stroke.</dd> <dt><code>diab</code></dt>
<dd>a factor with levels <code>No</code> and <code>Yes</code>,
 history of diabetes.</dd> <dt><code>minf</code></dt>
<dd>a factor with levels <code>No</code> and <code>Yes</code>,
 history of myocardial infarction.</dd> <dt><code>han</code></dt>
<dd>a factor with levels <code>No</code> and <code>Yes</code>, history
 of hypertension.</dd> <dt><code>obsmonths</code></dt>
<dd>a numeric vector, observation times in
 months (set to 0.1 for patients dying on the same day as the
 stroke).</dd> <dt><code>dead</code></dt>
<dd>a logical vector, whether patient died during the
 study.</dd> 
</dl>

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Estonian stroke data — stroke

A data frame with 829 observations on the following 10 variables.<dl>
 <dt><code>sex</code></dt>
<dd>a factor with levels <code>Female</code> and <code>Male</code>.</dd>

 <dt><code>died</code></dt>
<dd>a Date, date of death.</dd>

 <dt><code>dstr</code></dt>
<dd>a Date, date of stroke.</dd>

 <dt><code>age</code></dt>
<dd>a numeric vector, age at stroke.</dd>

 <dt><code>dgn</code></dt>
<dd>a factor, diagnosis, with levels <code>ICH</code>
 (intracranial haemorrhage), <code>ID</code> (unidentified). <code>INF</code>
 (infarction, ischaemic), <code>SAH</code> (subarchnoid haemorrhage).</dd>

 <dt><code>coma</code></dt>
<dd>a factor with levels <code>No</code> and <code>Yes</code>,
 indicating whether patient was in coma after the stroke.</dd>

 <dt><code>diab</code></dt>
<dd>a factor with levels <code>No</code> and <code>Yes</code>,
 history of diabetes.</dd>

 <dt><code>minf</code></dt>
<dd>a factor with levels <code>No</code> and <code>Yes</code>,
 history of myocardial infarction.</dd>

 <dt><code>han</code></dt>
<dd>a factor with levels <code>No</code> and <code>Yes</code>, history
 of hypertension.</dd>

 <dt><code>obsmonths</code></dt>
<dd>a numeric vector, observation times in
 months (set to 0.1 for patients dying on the same day as the
 stroke).</dd>

 <dt><code>dead</code></dt>
<dd>a logical vector, whether patient died during the
 study.</dd>

 
</dl>

stroke: Estonian stroke data

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