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Thall and Vail (1990) give a data set on two-week seizure counts for 59 epileptics. The number of seizures was recorded for a baseline period of 8 weeks, and then patients were randomly assigned to a treatment group or a control group. Counts were then recorded for four successive two-week periods. The subject's age is the only covariate.

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This data frame has 236 rows and the following 10 columns:

y

the count for the 2-week period.

trt

treatment, "placebo" or "progabide".

base

the counts in the baseline 8-week period.

age

subject's age, in years.

V4

0/1 indicator variable of period 4.

subject

subject number, 1 to 59.

period

period, 1 to 4.

lbase

log-counts for the baseline period, centred to have zero mean.

lage

log-ages, centred to have zero mean.

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Source

Thall, P. F. and Vail, S. C. (1990) Some covariance models for longitudinal count data with over-dispersion. Biometrics 46, 657–671.

References

Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (2002) Modern Applied Statistics with S. Fourth Edition. Springer.

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