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

Source

UCSF companion data