worm: Human parasitic worm infections

In sm: Smoothing Methods for Nonparametric Regression and Density Estimation

Human parasitic worm infections

Description

These data record the occurence of a human parasitic worm infection in residents of a rural community in China.

The variables are:

Age	age of the resident
Infection	presence (1) or absence (0) of infection
Sex	male (1) or female (2)

The background to the data, and an analysis, are described by Weidong et al. (1996), Ascaris, people and pigs in a rural community of Jiangxi province, China, Parasitology 113, 545-57.

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