byssinosis: Byssinosis Incidence in US Cotton Industry Workers

In louisaslett/durham-Rpkg: Durham University R Package

Description

The data come from a survey of workers in the US cotton industry and record whether they were suffering from the lung disease byssinosis as well as the values of five explanatory variables: the race, sex and smoking status of the worker, the length of employment, and the dustiness of the workplace.

Format

A data frame with 65 rows and 8 columns:

[,1]	Yes	numeric	Number of workers in this category with byssinosis
[,2]	No	numeric	Number of workers in this category without byssinosis
[,3]	Dust	factor	1 (high), 2 (medium) or 3 (low)
[,4]	Race	factor	1 (white) or 2 (other)
[,5]	Sex	factor	1 (male) or 2 (female)
[,6]	Smoking	factor	1 (smoker) or 2 (non-smoker)
[,7]	Emp.length	factor	1 (< 10 years), 2 (10-20 years) or 3 (> 20 years)
[,8]	n	numeric	number of workers in this category, i.e. Yes+No

Source

Handbook of small datasets (originally in Higgins and Koch (1977), International Statistical Review, volume 45, pages 51-62.

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