CRDS: Smoking and lung function among youths

CRDSR Documentation

Smoking and lung function among youths

Description

Data from the Childhood Respiratory Disease Study collected in the late 1970s to examine the effects of smoking and exposure to second-hand smoke. on pulmonary functions in youths.

Usage

data(CRDS)

Format

A data.frame with one row for each of 645 youngsters.

  • age in years

  • FEV (forced expiratory lung volume) in liters

  • height in inches

  • sex

  • smoker whether or not the youngster smokes

Source

Cummiskey, et al. (2020) "Causal Inference in Introductory Statistics Courses" Journal of Statistics Education 28(1) \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1080/10691898.2020.1713936")}


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