FIT data
Description
Dataset used in Chapter 6 of Regression Methods in Biostatistics (2nd edition), as distributed on the UCSF companion website. Study design: Randomized Fracture Intervention Trial of alendronate in postmenopausal women. Primary article: Black and colleagues (1996), The Lancet.
Usage
fit
Format
A data frame with 5324 rows and 9 variables:
- treat
- Treatment assignment
- age
- Calculated baseline age
- smoking
- Baseline smoking status
- frac_base
- History of vertebral fracture
- bmd_base
- Baseline femoral neck BMD
- newvfx
- New vertebral fracture
- fitpy
- Fit follow-up time (years)
- bmd_pctchg
- Percent change in BMD
- bmd_diff
- Change in BMD