R: Serum Protein Composition in Blood Samples

BloodSamples {DirichletReg} | R Documentation

## Serum Protein Composition in Blood Samples

### Description

These data (Aitchison, 2003) list blood samples' compositions of Albumin, Pre-Albumin, Globulin A, and Globulin B in relation to two types of diseases. 14 patients suffer from disease A, 16 from disease B and 6 are unclassified.

### Usage

    BloodSamples

### Format

A data frame with 36 observations on the following 6 variables.

`Albumin`, `Pre.Albumin`, `Globulin.A`, `Globulin.B`

  the amounts of Albumin, Pre-Albumin, Globulin A, and Globulin B.

`Disease`

  diagnosis of disease `A`, `B`, or `NA` for unclassified observations.

`New`

  a factor indicating whether the observations are old and classified (`No`) or new and unclassified (`Yes`).

### Source

Aitchison, J. (2003). The Statistical Analysis of Compositional Data. The Blackburn Press, Caldwell, NJ.

### Examples

    head(BloodSamples)
    Bl <- DR_data(BloodSamples[,1:4])
    summary(Bl)

[Package DirichletReg version 0.7-0 Index]