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CD4

The CD4 Count Data files for GAMLSS

Description

CD4: The data were given by Wade and Ades (1994) and refer to cd4 counts from uninfected children born to HIV-1 mothers and the age of the child.

Usage

data(CD4)

Format

Data frames each with the following variable.

cd4: a numeric vector showing the CD4 counts
age: the age of the child

Details

Data sets usefull for the GAMLSS booklet

References

Wade, A. M. and Ader, A. E. (1994) Age-related reference ranges : Significance tests for models and confidence intervals for centiles. Statistics in Medicine, 13, pages 2359-2367.

Examples

data(CD4)
with(CD4,plot(cd4~age))

gamlss.data

Data for Generalised Additive Models for Location Scale and Shape

v6.0-1

GPL-2 | GPL-3

Authors

Mikis Stasinopoulos <d.stasinopoulos@londonmet.ac.uk>, Bob Rigby, Fernanda De Bastiani

Initial release

2021-03-18

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