Thrombosis: Mortality from Coronary Thrombosis.

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Mortality from Coronary Thrombosis.

Description

Data from the study of Hill and Doll (1966) on the mortality of British doctors in relation to smoking: observations on coronary thrombosis and used in Agresti (1996).

Usage

Thrombosis

Format

A data frame with 10 observations on the following 4 variables.

age

Age band of strata (35-44, 45-54, 55-64, 65-74).

smoking

Smoking status (Nonsmokers or Smokers).

deaths

Number of deaths from coronary thrombosis per strata.

pyrs

Sum of person-years in strata.

Source

Agresti, A., 1996. An introduction to categorical data analysis.

References

Doll R, Hill AB. Mortality of British doctors in relation to smoking: observations on coronary thrombosis. Natl Cancer Inst Monogr. 1966 Jan;19:205-68. PMID: 5905669.

Examples

data(Thrombosis)

with(Thrombosis,
xtabs(cbind(deaths,pyrs) ~ age + smoking))

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