Snoring: Data on the incidence of hypertension and three indicator...

In evidence: Analysis of Scientific Evidence Using Bayesian and Likelihood Methods

Description

A total of 433 persons were tested for hypertension and checked for whether they were smokers, obese, or snored. The data are in Altman(1991).

Usage

data(Snoring)

Format

A data frame with 8 observations on the following 5 variables:

smoking

did the person smoke (1) or not (0)?

obese

was the person obese (1) or not (0)?

snoring

did the person snore (1) or not (0)?

n

the number of persons observed with these covariates

hypert

did the person suffer from hypertension (1) or not (0)?

Source

Altman, D.G. 1991. Practical Statistics for Medical Research. Chapman \& Hall, London.

References

van Hulst, R. 2018. Evaluating Scientific Evidence. ms.

Examples

data(Snoring)
fit <- glm(cbind(hypert, n - hypert) ~ smoking + obese + snoring,
  family=binomial, data=Snoring)
summary(fit)

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