kyphosis: Children who have had Corrective Spinal Surgery

In julianfaraway/brinla: Bayesian Regression with INLA

Children who have had Corrective Spinal Surgery

Description

Kyphosis is excessive outward curvature of the spine, causing hunching of the back.

Usage

data(kyphosis)

Format

A data frame with 4 columns and 81 rows. The columns are:

• Agein months.

• NumVertThe number of vertebrae involved.

• StartVertthe number of the first (topmost) vertebra operated on.

• Kyphosistakes the value 0 if absent or 1 if present after surgery

Source

Also found in the rpart package

References

John M. Chambers and Trevor J. Hastie eds. (1992) Statistical Models in S, Wadsworth and Brooks/Cole, Pacific Grove, CA.

Examples

data(kyphosis)

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