IHP 525 Statistical Report Description This document provides you with a description of the data that you will need to complete Final Project Part II Milestone Two. Description of the Data: NAME: Worcester Heart Attack Study WHAS100 Data (whas100.dat) SIZE: 100 Observations, 9 variables SOURCE: Worcester Heart Attack Study data from Dr. Robert J. Goldberg of the Department of Cardiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. REFERENCE: Hosmer, D. W., Lemeshow, S., & May, S. (2008). Applied survival analysis: Regression modeling of time to event data (2nd ed.). New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons Inc. DESCRIPTIVE ABSTRACT: The main goal of this study is to describe factors associated with trends over time in the incidence and survival rates following hospital admission for acute myocardial infarction (MI). Data have been collected during thirteen 1-year periods beginning in 1975 and extending through 2001 on all MI patients admitted to hospitals in the Worcester, Massachusetts, Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area. DISCLAIMER: This data is also available at the following Wiley FTP site: ftp//ftp.wiley.com/public/sci_tech_med/survival. LIST OF VARIABLES: Variables Name Description Values/Codes ***************************************************************************** 1 id ID Code 1-100 2 admitdate Admission Date mm/dd/yyyy 3 foldate Follow Up Date mm/dd/yyyy 4 los Length of Hospital Stay Days 5 lenfol Follow Up Time Days 6 fstat Follow Up Status 1 = Dead, 0 = Alive 7 age Age years 8 gender Gender 0 = Male 1 = Female 9 bmi Body Mass Index kg/m^2