Cholesterol levels for heart-attack patients

Description

This dataset reports cholesterol levels for 28 patients treated at a Pennsylvania medical center. All patients have cholesterol recorded on day 2 and day 4 after attack, but some have missing values on day 14. These data were analyzed by Schafer (1997, Chap. 5).

Usage

data(cholesterol)

Format

a data frame with 28 rows and 3 variables:

Y1

cholesterol 2 days after heart attack.

Y2

cholesterol 4 days after heart attack.

Y3

cholesterol 14 days after heart attack.

Source

Ryan, B.F. and Joiner, B.L. (1994) Minitab Handbook (Third edition). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

References

Schafer, J.L. (1997) Analysis of Incomplete Multivariate Data. London: Chapman & Hall/CRC Press.

For example analyses of this dataset using functions in the norm2 package, see the manual NORM Package for R, Version 2 in the library subdirectory doc.