R: Treatment of Bacteriuria

bacteriuria {gss} | R Documentation

## Treatment of Bacteriuria

### Description

Bacteriuria patients were randomly assigned to two treatment groups. Weekly binary indicator of bacteriuria was recorded for every patient over 4 to 16 weeks. A total of 72 patients were represented in the data, with 36 each in the two treatment groups.

### Usage

    data(bacteriuria)

### Format

A data frame containing 820 observations on the following variables.

`id` | Identification of patients, a factor.
`trt` | Treatments 1 or 2, a factor.
`time` | Weeks after randomization.
`infect` | Binary indicator of bacteriuria (bacteria in urine).

### Source

Joe, H. (1997), Multivariate Models and Dependence Concepts. London: Chapman and Hall.

### References

Gu, C. and Ma, P. (2005), Generalized nonparametric mixed-effect models: computation and smoothing parameter selection. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 14, 485–504.

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