epilepsy:
Epilitic Seizures Data
Description
Longitudinal study on epilitic seizures (Thall and Vail, 1990; Diggle et al. 2002). The data consist into 59 individuals with five observations each: The baseline eight-week interval and measurements collected at subsequent visits every two-week.
Format
id |
| patient's id . |
age |
| patient's age. |
trt |
indicator if the patient is treated with progabide (1) or with placebo (2). |
counts |
| number of epileptic seizures. |
time |
observation period in weeks (8 for baseline and 2 for subsequent visits). |
visit |
indicator if observation at baseline (0) or subsequent visit (1). |
Source
Thall, P.F. and Vail S.C. (1990). Some covariance models for longitudinal count data with overdispersion. Biometrics 46, 657--671.References
Diggle, P.J., Heagerty, P., Liang, K.Y. and Zeger, S.L. (2002). Analysis of Longitudinal Data. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Second edition.