lbreg (version 1.3)

Evans: Evans County dataset

Description

Data from cohort study in which white males in Evans County were followed for 7 years, with coronary heart disease as the outcome of interest.

Usage

data("Evans")

Format

A data frame with 609 observations on the following 9 variables.

CDH

outcome variable; 1 = coronary heart disease

CAT

1 = high, 0 = normal catecholamine level

AGE

age (in years)

CHL

cholesterol, mg/dl

SMK

1 = subject has ever smoked

ECG

1 = presence of electrocardiogram abnormality

DBP

diastolic blood pressure, mmHg

SBP

systolic blood pressure, mmHg

HPT

1 = SBP greater than or equal to 160 or DBP greater than or equal to 95

References

D. Kleinbaum and M. Klein (2010) Survival Analysis: A Self-Learning Text. 3rd ed. Springer.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(Evans)
dim(Evans)
names(Evans)

# }