R: Acute Painful Diabetic Neuropathy

neuropathy {exactRankTests} | R Documentation

## Acute Painful Diabetic Neuropathy

### Description

The logarithm of the ratio of pain scores at baseline and after four weeks for a control and treatment group.

### Usage

    data(neuropathy)

### Format

A data frame with 58 observations on the following 2 variables.

pain

  Pain scores: ln(baseline/final).

group

  a factor with levels `control` and `treat`.

### Details

Data from Table 1 of Conover & Salsburg (1988).

### Source

William J. Conover and David S. Salsburg (1988), Locally most powerful tests for detecting treatment effects when only a subset of patients can be expected to "respond" to treatment. Biometrics, 44, 189–196.

### Examples

    data(neuropathy)
    # compare with Table 2 of Conover & Salsburg (1988)
    wilcox.exact(pain ~ group, data=neuropathy, alternative="less")
    css <- cscores(neuropathy$pain, type="ConSal")
    pperm(sum(css[neuropathy$group=="control"]),css,
          m=sum(neuropathy$group=="control"))

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