Description Usage Format Details Source References Examples
621 people born with Spina Bifida (a congenital disorder) in the state
of New York between 1969 and 1974 are observed by three sources:
birth certificates (S1
); death certificates (S2
); and medical
rehabilitation lists (S3
). The people are also cross-classified
according to their ethnicity (eth
; 3 levels).
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A "data.frame"
with 24 observations on the following 5 variables.
y
Counts in each cell of the table with NAs for the cells corresponding to not being observed by any of the sources.
S1
A factor with levels un
obs
indicating whether the birth certificate source observed the person.
S2
A factor with levels un
obs
indicating whether the death certificate source observed the person.
S3
A factor with levels un
obs
indicating whether the medical rehabilitation source observed the person.
eth
A factor with levels afro-american
caucasian
codeother indicating the ethnicity of the person (afro-american
= Afro-American,
causcasian
= Caucasian, other
= Other).
See Madigan & York (1997), and the references therin, for more details on the study.
For details on the function bict
applied to this data, see Overstall & King (2014).
Madigan, D. & York, J.C. (1997) Methods for Estimation of the Size of a Closed Population. Biometrika, 84 (1), 19–31.
Overstall, A.M. & King, R. (2014) conting: An R package for Bayesian analysis of complete and incomplete contingency tables. Journal of Statistical Software, 58 (7), 1–27. http://www.jstatsoft.org/v58/i07/
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