doctorvisits: Doctor visits data
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doctorvisits R Documentation
Doctor visits data
Description
A regression dataset on annual doctor visit counts and related health,
demographic, and insurance covariates.
Usage
doctorvisits
Format
A data frame with 5,190 rows and 12 variables:
- visits
Number of doctor visits.
- gender
Recorded gender.
- age
Age in years scaled to decades.
- income
Income measure scaled by household composition.
- illness
Number of illnesses in the previous two weeks.
- reduced
Number of days with reduced activity.
- health
Self-rated health score.
- private
Private insurance indicator.
- freepoor
Free care indicator for low-income patients.
- freerepat
Free care indicator for pensioners or veterans.
- nchronic
Indicator for no chronic condition.
- lchronic
Indicator for limiting chronic condition.
Source
Cameron AC, Trivedi PK (1998). Regression Analysis of Count Data.
Cambridge University Press. The packaged data are from AER::DoctorVisits.
Examples
str(funcml::doctorvisits)
summary(funcml::doctorvisits$visits)
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Doctor visits data
Description
A regression dataset on annual doctor visit counts and related health, demographic, and insurance covariates.
Usage
doctorvisits
Format
A data frame with 5,190 rows and 12 variables:
- visits
Number of doctor visits.
- gender
Recorded gender.
- age
Age in years scaled to decades.
- income
Income measure scaled by household composition.
- illness
Number of illnesses in the previous two weeks.
- reduced
Number of days with reduced activity.
- health
Self-rated health score.
- private
Private insurance indicator.
- freepoor
Free care indicator for low-income patients.
- freerepat
Free care indicator for pensioners or veterans.
- nchronic
Indicator for no chronic condition.
- lchronic
Indicator for limiting chronic condition.
Source
Cameron AC, Trivedi PK (1998). Regression Analysis of Count Data.
Cambridge University Press. The packaged data are from AER::DoctorVisits.
Examples
str(funcml::doctorvisits)
summary(funcml::doctorvisits$visits)
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