cd4: Serial CD4 counts in children with HIV.
Description
Dataset used in Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models
by Andrew Gelman and Jennifer Hill (Cambridge University Press, 2006). Rows with missing
values of 'CD4CNT', 'visage' or 'baseage' have been removed.
Format
A data frame with 976 rows and 11 variables:
- newpid
- Patient ID code.
- t
- Time, in years from first visit.
- sqrtcd4
- Square root of CD4 count.
- treatmnt
- Indicator variable for treatment, 1 represents control group and 2 indicates zinc treatment group.
- CD4CNT
- CD4 count on original (untransformed) scale.
- baseage
- Age of child in years at initial visit.
- visage
- Age of child in years at given visit.