smoking_youth_tbl_df: Youth Smoking and Lung Function

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Youth Smoking and Lung Function

Description

This dataset, smoking_youth_tbl_df, is a tibble containing data from the Childhood Respiratory Disease Study collected in the late 1970s, examining the effects of smoking and second-hand smoke exposure on pulmonary function in 654 youths.

Usage

data(smoking_youth_tbl_df)

Format

A tibble with 654 observations and 5 variables:

age

Age in years (integer)

FEV

Forced Expiratory Volume in liters (numeric)

height

Height in centimeters (numeric)

sex

Sex of participant (character)

smoker

Smoking status (character)

Details

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

Source

Data taken from the LSTbook package version 0.6

PulmoDataSets documentation built on Sept. 9, 2025, 5:41 p.m.