chestSim {gRbase}R Documentation

Simulated data from the Chest Clinic example

Description

Simulated data from the Chest Clinic example (also known as the Asia example) from Lauritzen and Spiegelhalter, 1988.

Usage

data(chestSim500)

Format

A data frame with 500 observations on the following 8 variables.

asia
a factor with levels yes no
tub
a factor with levels yes no
smoke
a factor with levels yes no
lung
a factor with levels yes no
bronc
a factor with levels yes no
either
a factor with levels yes no
xray
a factor with levels yes no
dysp
a factor with levels yes no

References

Lauritzen and Spiegelhalter (1988) Local Computations with Probabilities on Graphical Structures and their Application to Expert Systems (with Discussion). J. Roy. Stat. Soc. 50, p. 157-224.

Examples

data(chestSim500)
## maybe str(chestSim500) ; plot(chestSim500) ...

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