rwm5yrR Documentation

rwm5yr

Description

German health registry for the years 1984-1988. Health information for years immediately prior to health reform.

Usage

data(rwm5yr)

Format

A data frame with 19,609 observations on the following 17 variables.

id

patient ID (1=7028)

docvis

number of visits to doctor during year (0-121)

hospvis

number of days in hospital during year (0-51)

year

year; (categorical: 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988)

edlevel

educational level (categorical: 1-4)

age

age: 25-64

outwork

out of work=1; 0=working

female

female=1; 0=male

married

married=1; 0=not married

kids

have children=1; no children=0

hhninc

household yearly income in marks (in Marks)

educ

years of formal education (7-18)

self

self-employed=1; not self employed=0

edlevel1

(1/0) not high school graduate

edlevel2

(1/0) high school graduate

edlevel3

(1/0) university/college

edlevel4

(1/0) graduate school

Details

rwm5yr is saved as a data frame. Count models typically use docvis as response variable. 0 counts are included

Source

German Health Reform Registry, years pre-reform 1984-1988,

References

Hilbe, Joseph M (2007, 2011), Negative Binomial Regression, Cambridge University Press

Examples

data(rwm5yr)
glmrp <- glm(docvis ~ outwork + female + age + factor(edlevel), family=poisson, data=rwm5yr)
summary(glmrp)
exp(coef(glmrp))
library(MASS)
glmrnb <- glm.nb(docvis ~ outwork + female + age + factor(edlevel), data=rwm5yr)
summary(glmrnb)
exp(coef(glmrnb))
## Not run: 
library(gee)
mygee <- gee(docvis ~ outwork + age + factor(edlevel), id=id, 
  corstr = "exchangeable", family=poisson, data=rwm5yr)
summary(mygee)
exp(coef(mygee))

## End(Not run)