gcmr (version 1.0.3)

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.

Usage

data(epilepsy)

Arguments

Format

idpatient's id .
agepatient's age.
trtindicator if the patient is treated with progabide (1) or with placebo (2).
countsnumber of epileptic seizures.
timeobservation period in weeks (8 for baseline and 2 for subsequent visits).
visitindicator if observation at baseline (0) or subsequent visit (1).

References

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