ghq: General Health Questionnaire Data

In Flury: Data Sets from Flury, 1997

Description

Tabulated data on the number of patients requiring psychiatric treatment.

Usage

data(ghq)

Format

'ghq' is a data frame tabulating N= 120 patients according to their gender and GHQ (general health questionnaire) score. There are 17 different combinations of gender and GHQ score, for each combination the number of patients and the number requiring psychiatric treatment are reported.

Gender

a factor with levels Male Female

GHQ

Score on the Generalised Heath Questionnarie

Number

Number of patients in that combination

PsychiatricT

Number of patients in that combinations requiring psychiatric treatment

Source

Silvapulle, M.J. (1981) “On the existence of maximum likelihood estimators for the binomial response model” Journal of the Royal Statisical Society Series B 43:310-313

References

Flury, B.D. (1997) A First Course in Multivariate Statistics, New York: Springer

Examples

data(ghq)

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