gammSlice (version 2.0-2)

indonRespir: Eespiratory infection in Indonesian children

Description

Indonesian Children's Health Study of respiratory infections for a cohort of 275 Indonesian children. The data are longitudinal with each child having between 1 and 6 repeated measurements.

Usage

data(indonRespir)

Format

A data frame with 1200 observations on the following 12 variables:

idnum

child identification number.

respirInfec

indicator of presence of resipiratory infection.

age

age of the child in years.

vitAdefic

indicator of Vitamin A deficiency: 1 = the child had Vitamin A deficiency, 0 = the child did not have Vitamin A deficiency.

female

indicator of child being female: 1 = the child is female, 0 = the child is male.

height

height of the child in centimeters.

stunted

indicator of the child being "short for his/her age": 1 = the child is "short for his/her age", 0 = the child is not "short for his/her age"

visit2

indicator that the child had exactly 2 clinical visits: 1 = the exact number of clinical visits was 2, 0 = the exact number of clinical visits was not 2.

visit3

indicator that the child had exactly 3 clinical visits: 1 = the exact number of clinical visits was 3, 0 = the exact number of clinical visits was not 3.

visit4

indicator that the child had exactly 4 clinical visits: 1 = the exact number of clinical visits was 4, 0 = the exact number of clinical visits was not 4.

visit5

indicator that the child had exactly 5 clinical visits: 1 = the exact number of clinical visits was 5, 0 = the exact number of clinical visits was not 5.

visit6

indicator that the child had exactly 6 clinical visits: 1 = the exact number of clinical visits was 6, 0 = the exact number of clinical visits was not 6.

References

Diggle, P., Heagerty, P., Liang, K.-L. and Zeger, S. (2002). Analysis of Longitudinal Data (Second Edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
library(gammSlice) ; data(indonRespir)
plot(indonRespir$age,jitter(indonRespir$respirInfec))
# }