ohio: Air Pollution and Health

In Fahrmeir: Data from the Book "Multivariate Statistical Modelling Based on Generalized Linear Models", First Edition, by Ludwig Fahrmeir and Gerhard Tutz

Description

Air Pollution and Health, annual data on children 7 to ten years old in Ohio.

Usage

data(ohio)

Format

A data frame with 32 observations on the following 6 variables.

a7

Presence (1) or absence (0) of respiratory infection

a8

Presence (1) or absence (0) of respiratory infection

a9

Presence (1) or absence (0) of respiratory infection

a10

Presence (1) or absence (0) of respiratory infection

mother.smoke

a factor with levels no yes

n

number of children

Details

Within the harvard Study of Air Pollution and Health, 537 children were examined annually from age 7 to 10, on the presence or absence of respiratory infection. So there are four repeated measurements on each child, or "short time series". The only available covariate is mothers smoking status at start of study.

Source

Ludwig Fahrmeir, Gerhard Tutz (1994): Multivariate Statistical Modelling Based on Generalized Linear Models. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer Verlag. New-York Berlin Heidelberg

Examples

str(ohio)
summary(ohio)

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