alcoholSurv-package {alcoholSurv}R Documentation

Light Daily Alcohol and Longevity

Description

Contains data from an observational study concerning possible effects of light daily alcohol consumption on survival and on HDL cholesterol. It also replicates various simple analyses in Rosenbaum (2025a) <doi:10.1080/09332480.2025.2473291>. Finally, it includes new R code in wgtRankCef() that implements and replicates a new method for constructing evidence factors in observational block designs.

Details

This package contains a dataframe, alcoholSurv, used to study the effects of light daily alcohol on survival. It also contains a function, wgtRankDef() that conducts evidence factor analyses using decisive pairs.

Author(s)

Paul Rosenbaum [aut, cre]

Maintainer: Paul Rosenbaum <rosenbaum@wharton.upenn.edu>

References

Rosenbaum, P. R. (2025a) <doi:10.1080/09332480.2025.2473291> Does a Daily Glass of Wine Lengthen Life? Insight from a Second Control Group. Chance, 38(1), 25-30.

Rosenbaum, P. R. (2025b) A new construction of evidence factors in an observational study of light daily alcohol consumption and longevity. Manuscript.

Examples

data(alcoholSurv)
# Three treatment groups
table(alcoholSurv$gDrinks)
# In 1130 matched blocks of size 5
table(table(alcoholSurv$mset))

[Package alcoholSurv version 0.7.0 Index]