AIDS Clinical Trials Group Study 175
Linked on 9/25/2023
The AIDS Clinical Trials Group Study 175 Dataset contains healthcare statistics and categorical information about patients who have been diagnosed with AIDS. This dataset was initially published in 1996. The prediction task is to predict whether or not each patient died within a certain window of time or not.
Dataset Characteristics
Tabular, Multivariate
Subject Area
Health and Medicine
Associated Tasks
Classification, Regression
Feature Type
Categorical, Integer
# Instances
2139
# Features
23
Dataset Information
For what purpose was the dataset created?
To examine the performance of two different types of AIDS treatments
Who funded the creation of the dataset?
- AIDS Clinical Trials Group of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - General Research Center units funded by the National Center for Research Resources
What do the instances in this dataset represent?
- Health records - AIDS patients - US only
Are there recommended data splits?
Cross validation or a single train-test split could be used.
Does the dataset contain data that might be considered sensitive in any way?
- Ethnicity (race) - Gender
Was there any data preprocessing performed?
No
Has Missing Values?
No
Introductory Paper
By S. Hammer, D. Katzenstein, M. Hughes, H. Gundacker, R. Schooley, R. Haubrich, W. K. Henry, M. Lederman, J. Phair, M. Niu, M. Hirsch, T. Merigan. 1996
Published in New England Journal of Medicine
Variables Table
| Variable Name | Role | Type | Demographic | Description | Units | Missing Values |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pidnum | ID | Integer | Patient ID | no | ||
| cid | Target | Binary | censoring indicator (1 = failure, 0 = censoring) | no | ||
| time | Feature | Integer | time to failure or censoring | no | ||
| trt | Feature | Integer | treatment indicator (0 = ZDV only; 1 = ZDV + ddI, 2 = ZDV + Zal, 3 = ddI only) | no | ||
| age | Feature | Integer | Age | age (yrs) at baseline | no | |
| wtkg | Feature | Continuous | weight (kg) at baseline | no | ||
| hemo | Feature | Binary | hemophilia (0=no, 1=yes) | no | ||
| homo | Feature | Binary | Sexual Orientation | homosexual activity (0=no, 1=yes) | no | |
| drugs | Feature | Binary | history of IV drug use (0=no, 1=yes) | no | ||
| karnof | Feature | Integer | Karnofsky score (on a scale of 0-100) | no |
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Additional Variable Information
- Personal information (age, weight, race, gender, sexual activity) - Medical history (hemophilia, history of IV drugs) - Treatment history (ZDV/non-ZDV treatment history) - Lab results (CD4/CD8 counts)
Class Labels
Death or Censored (did not die within the time of observation)
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pip install ucimlrepo
from ucimlrepo import fetch_ucirepo # fetch dataset aids_clinical_trials_group_study_175 = fetch_ucirepo(id=890) # data (as pandas dataframes) X = aids_clinical_trials_group_study_175.data.features y = aids_clinical_trials_group_study_175.data.targets # metadata print(aids_clinical_trials_group_study_175.metadata) # variable information print(aids_clinical_trials_group_study_175.variables)
Hammer, S., Katzenstein, D., Hughes, M., Gundacker, H., Schooley, R., Haubrich, R., K., W., Lederman, M., Phair, J., Niu, M., Hirsch, M., & Merigan, T. (1996). AIDS Clinical Trials Group Study 175 [Dataset]. UCI Machine Learning Repository. https://doi.org/10.24432/C5ZG8F.
Citations/Acknowledgements
If you use this dataset, please follow the acknowledgment policy on the original dataset website.
Keywords
Creators
S. Hammer
D. Katzenstein
M. Hughes
H. Gundacker
R. Schooley
R. Haubrich
W. K.
M. Lederman
J. Phair
M. Niu
M. Hirsch
T. Merigan