cgd: Chronic Granulotomous Disease data
Description
Data are from a placebo controlled trial of gamma
interferon in chronic granulotomous disease (CGD).
Contains the data on time to serious infections observed through
end of study for each patient.Format
- id
- subject identification number
- center
- enrolling center
- random
- date of randomization
- treatment
- placebo or gamma interferon
- sex
- sex
- age
- age in years, at study entry
- height
- height in cm at study entry
- weight
- weight in kg at study entry
- inherit
- pattern of inheritance
- steroids
- use of steroids at study entry,1=yes
- propylac
- use of prophylactic antibiotics at study entry
- hos.cat
- a categorization of the centers into 4 groups
- tstart, tstop
- start and end of each time interval
- status
- 1=the interval ends with an infection
- enum
- observation number within subject
Details
The cgd0 data set is in the form found in the references,
with one line per patient and no recoding of the variables.
The cgd data set (this one) has been cast into (start, stop]
format with one line per event, and covariates
such as center recoded as factors
to include meaningful labels.