Datasets for Statistical Analysis

Neuralgia data

Keywords:

neuralgia

Categories:

generalized linear models;
health

Description:

The data come from a study investigating the effect of iontophoretic treatment with the nerve conduction-inhibiting chemical vincristine on elderly patients complaining of post-herpetic neuralgia. There were eighteen patients in the study, who were interviewed six weeks after the initial treatment and were asked if the pain had been reduced

There are 18 observations on five variables.

Variables:

Pain	A binary variable: 1 if the pain eased, 0 otherwise.
Treatment	A binary variable: 1 if the patient underwent treatment, 0 otherwise.
Age	The age of the patient in completed years.
Gender	The gender of the patient: M (male) or F (female).
Duration	The pretreatment duration of symptoms (in months)

Data Quality:

There are no missing values.

Source:

Piegorsch, WW (1992). "Complementary log regression for generalized linear models" in American Statistician, 46, 94-99.

The data also appear as dataset 261 in Hand et al.

Notes:

Patient 13 died during the experiment, but the pain was easing and this has been recorded.

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