zepid.datasets.load_binge_drinking_data

zepid.datasets.load_binge_drinking_data()

Loads data from Ahren J et al., “Predicting the Population Health Impacts of Community Interventions: The Case of Alcohol Outlets and Binge Drinking” AJPH 2016. Below is some notes taken from the supplementary materials detailed by the paper authors;

“The data provided for use with this sample code are simulated. The data are designed to be similar to the real data and associations examined in the main paper. There are 4000 observations representing individuals who are nested in 44 communities (variable name: neighborhood_id). The exposure of interest is neighborhood alcohol outlet density (alc_outlet_density), with values ranging from 39 to 168. The outcome of interest is a binary indicator of binge drinking (binge_drink), and covariates include gender (male), age (age_categorical), marital status (married), education (education_categorical), and race/ethnicity (race_categorical). Alcohol outlet density and binge drinking were simulated as simple linear functions of the covariates. Thus, unlike the applied example, the relation of outlet density with binge drinking has a linear shape.”

Notes

Variables included are
  • male: gender (0: female, 1: male)
  • age_categorical: age groups (not clearly defined as to what they refer to)
  • married: marital status
  • education_categorical: categories of education levels
  • race_categorical: categories of race
  • alc_outlet_density: density of alcohol outlets in the neighborhood (continuous)
  • binge_drink: whether individual binge drinks (1: yes, 0: no)
  • neighborhood_id: identifier for groups that individuals are nested in
Returns:Returns pandas DataFrame
Return type:DataFrame