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SERIES C  
Applied Statistics

Correlating two continuous variables subject to detection limits in the context of mixture distributions, H. Chu, L. H. Moulton, W. J. Mack, D. J. Passaro, P. F. Barroso and A. Muñoz
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C, Applied Statistics, Volume 54 (2005) part 5, 831 - 845

DESCRIPTION OF DATA SET:

There are two data sets (data1.txt and data2.txt).

The first one (data1.txt) comprise 85 rows corresponding to 85 individuals from the cohort study of HIV-infected men in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The first colomn corresponds to patient's identification number, the second and third columns correspond to semen and plasma viral load measurements (copies/ml) with those below detection limits of 400 copies/ml as
282.84 copies/ml respectively.

The second data set (data2.txt) comprise 195 rows corresponding to 195 individuals from the Women's Interagency HIV Oral Study. The first colomn corresponds to patient's identification number, the second and third columns correspond to saliva and plasma viral load measurements (copies/ml) with those below detection limits of 80 copies/ml as 56.57 copies/ml respectively.

Haitao Chu
Department of Epidemiology
Room 7636
Johns Hopkins University
615 North Wolfe Street
Baltimore
MD 22105
USA

E-mail: hchu@jhsph.ed

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