Data of 2,585 Participants in the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI) Project

This dataset, osteoarthritis_df, is a data frame containing demographic and clinical information of 2,585 individuals with or at risk of knee osteoarthritis. The dataset includes variables such as age, sex, body mass index (BMI), race, smoking status, and osteoarthritis-related outcomes. Some variables contain missing values, including BMI (quantitative), race (categorical), smoking status (binary), and knee osteoarthritis status at follow-up (binary).

Usage

data(osteoarthritis_df)

Format

A data frame with 2,585 observations and 7 variables:

AGE

Integer vector indicating the participant's age

SEX

Factor indicating the participant's sex (2 levels)

BMI

Numeric vector indicating the body mass index of the participant

RAC

Factor indicating the participant's race (4 levels)

SMK

Factor indicating the smoking status (2 levels)

OSP

Factor indicating osteoarthritis status at baseline (2 levels)

KOA

Factor indicating knee osteoarthritis status at follow-up (2 levels)

Source

Data taken from the MatchThem package version 1.2.1.

Details

The dataset name has been kept as 'osteoarthritis_df' to avoid confusion with other datasets in the R ecosystem. This naming convention helps distinguish this dataset as part of the healthmotionR package and assists users in identifying its specific characteristics. The suffix 'df' indicates that the dataset is a data frame. The original content has not been modified in any way.