lowbackpain {flexord}R Documentation

Low Back Pain Diagnoses and Diagnosis Criteria

Description

In a 2011 study, Smart et al. (2011) collected information on 464 Irish and British patients suffering from low back pain regarding:

Fop et al. (2017) conducted Latent Class Analysis on this data set to retrieve the experts' classifications; and by comparing nested models they were able to select 11 out of 38 criteria which contain the most of the relevant grouping information while avoiding redundancy.

Usage

data('lowbackpain')

Format

A list containing:

data:

A 464x11 binary matrix indicating the presence/absence of the 11 selected criteria for each of the 464 patients.

group:

A factor of length 464 indicating the diagnosis each patient received, numerically coded (order has no meaning).

index:

The index for the criteria explaining which symptom they refer to.

Source

Supplemental Content for Fop et al. (2017): doi:10.1214/17-AOAS1061SUPP

References


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