alzheimer_smoking_df: Smoking and Alzheimer's Disease

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Smoking and Alzheimer's Disease

Description

This dataset, alzheimer_smoking_df, is a data frame containing case-control data from a study examining the association between smoking and Alzheimer's disease. The study included 538 participants with information on smoking status, disease classification, and gender.

Usage

data(alzheimer_smoking_df)

Format

A data frame with 538 observations and 3 variables:

smoking

Factor: Smoking status of participants (4 levels)

disease

Factor: Disease classification including Alzheimer's diagnosis (3 levels)

gender

Factor: Participant's gender (2 levels)

Details

The dataset name has been kept as 'alzheimer_smoking_df' to avoid confusion with other datasets in the R ecosystem. This naming convention helps distinguish this dataset as part of the NeuroDataSets package. The suffix 'df' indicates that the dataset is a data frame. The original content has not been modified.

Source

Data taken from the coin package version 1.4-3. Original study: Salib, E. and Hillier, V. (1997). A case-control study of smoking and Alzheimer's disease. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 12: 295-300.

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