ex1917 {Sleuth2} | R Documentation |
Dataset from a study which investigated the added risk of breast cancer due to alcohol consumption. A sample of confirmed breast cancer patients were compared with a sample of cancer free women who were close in age and from the same neighborhood as the cases. Data was collected on the alcohol consumption and body mass of both sets of women.
ex1917
A data frame with 6 observations on the following 4 variables.
Bodymass
"high"
,
"low"
and "medium"
Drinking
"high"
and
"low"
Cases
Controls
Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2002). The Statistical Sleuth: A Course in Methods of Data Analysis (2nd ed), Duxbury.
Rosenberg, L., Palmer, J.R., Miller, D.R., Clarke, E.A. and Shapiro, S. (1990). A Case-Control Study of Alcoholic Beverage Consumption and Breast Cancer, American Journal of Epidemiology 131(1): 6–14.
str(ex1917)