This dataset, parkinsons_list, is a list containing information from 7 studies investigating the effect of dopamine agonists as adjunct therapy in patients with Parkinson's disease. The dataset includes placebo and four active drugs coded from 2 to 5, measuring outcomes such as lost work-time reduction.
data(parkinsons_list)A list with 5 elements:
Numeric vector representing the reduction in lost work-time for each treatment arm
Numeric vector indicating the standard error of each observation
Character vector identifying the treatment type (placebo or drug)
Numeric vector indicating the study each observation belongs to
Character vector listing the treatment names in the order of coding
The dataset name has been kept as 'parkinsons_list' to avoid confusion with other datasets in the R ecosystem. This naming convention helps distinguish this dataset as part of the MedxR package and assists users in identifying its specific characteristics. The suffix 'list' indicates that the dataset is a list. The original content has not been modified in any way.