Subset of Tuberculosis data

See references for more details. The data is collected between 2003-2009 in Maryland, USA. This is originally from (Xie et al. 2018)

tb_clean

Format

The object is a data frame of dimension 1137x7. Each row is a detected case of TB.

sex

Sex of individual (F/M/Unknown)

county

County in Maryland of individual

race

Race of individual (Asian/Black or African American/White)

spsmear

Smear status of individual (positive/negative/unknown)

hivstatus

HIV status of individual (positive/negative/unknown)

homeless

Homelessness status of individual (yes/no)

groupr

Cluster group

rel_time

detection time relative to first individual in cluster

References

Xie YL, Cronin WA, Proschan M, Oatis R, Cohn S, Curry SR, Golub JE, Barry III CE, Dorman SE (2018). “Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis From Patients Who Are Nucleic Acid Amplification Test Negative.” Clinical Infectious Diseases, 67(11), 1653--1659.

Examples

head(tb_clean)
#> # A tibble: 6 x 8
#> # Groups:   group [1]
#>   sex    county       race            spsmear  hivstatus homeless group rel_time
#>   <chr>  <chr>        <chr>           <chr>    <fct>     <chr>    <chr>    <dbl>
#> 1 Male   "BALTIMORE … Black or Afric… "Negati… pos       Yes      2          375
#> 2 Male   "BALTIMORE … Black or Afric… "Negati… pos       Yes      2         1085
#> 3 Male   ""           Black or Afric… ""       unk       Yes      2         1357
#> 4 Male   "BALTIMORE … Black or Afric… "Positi… pos       Yes      2         1002
#> 5 Female "BALTIMORE … Black or Afric… "Negati… neg       No       2         1385
#> 6 Male   "BALTIMORE … Black or Afric… "Negati… pos       Yes      2         1029
summary(tb_clean)
#>      sex               county              race             spsmear         
#>  Length:389         Length:389         Length:389         Length:389        

#>  Class :character   Class :character   Class :character   Class :character  
#>  Mode  :character   Mode  :character   Mode  :character   Mode  :character  
#>                                                                             
#>                                                                             
#>                                                                             
#>  hivstatus   homeless            group              rel_time     
#>  neg:272   Length:389         Length:389         Min.   :   0.0  
#>  unk: 61   Class :character   Class :character   1st Qu.:   0.0  
#>  pos: 56   Mode  :character   Mode  :character   Median : 192.0  
#>                                                  Mean   : 463.1  
#>                                                  3rd Qu.: 885.0  
#>                                                  Max.   :1938.0