Leiden 85+ study

Subset of data from the Leiden 85+ study

Format

leiden85 is a data frame with 956 rows and 336 columns.

Source

Lagaay, A. M., van der Meij, J. C., Hijmans, W. (1992). Validation of medical history taking as part of a population based survey in subjects aged 85 and over. Brit. Med. J., 304(6834), 1091-1092.

Izaks, G. J., van Houwelingen, H. C., Schreuder, G. M., Ligthart, G. J. (1997). The association between human leucocyte antigens (HLA) and mortality in community residents aged 85 and older. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 45(1), 56-60.

Boshuizen, H. C., Izaks, G. J., van Buuren, S., Ligthart, G. J. (1998). Blood pressure and mortality in elderly people aged 85 and older: Community based study. Brit. Med. J., 316(7147), 1780-1784.

Van Buuren, S., Boshuizen, H.C., Knook, D.L. (1999) Multiple imputation of missing blood pressure covariates in survival analysis. Statistics in Medicine, 18, 681–694.

Van Buuren, S. (2018). Flexible Imputation of Missing Data. Second Edition. Chapman & Hall/CRC. Boca Raton, FL.

Details

The data set concerns of subset of 956 members of a very old (85+) cohort in Leiden.

Multiple imputation of this data set has been described in Boshuizen et al (1998), Van Buuren et al (1999) and Van Buuren (2012), chapter 7.

The data set is not available as part of mice.