ds5: Data Set 5: IQ and Lead Exposure

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Description

Data are measured from children in two consecutive years, and the children were living close to a lead smelter. Data are from "Neuropsychological Dysfunction in Children with Chronic Low-Level Lead Absorption, " by P.J. Landrigan, R.H. Whitworth, R.W. Baloh, N.W. Staehling, W.F. Barthel, and B.F. Rosenblum, Lancet, Vol. 1, Issue 7909.

• LEAD is blood lead level group [1=low lead level (blood lead levels < 40 micograms/100 mL in both years; 2 = medium lead level (blood lead levels >= 40 micrograms/100 mL in exactly one of the two years); 3 = high lead levels (blood lead levels >= 40 micrograms/100 mL in both years)].

• AGE is age in years

• SEX is sex of subject (1=male,2=female)

• YEAR1 is blood lead level in first year

• YEAR2 is blood lead level in second year

• IQV is measured verbal IQ score

• IQP is measured performance IQ score

• IQF is measured full IQ score

Format

A data frame with 121 rows and 8 variables

Source

Triola, M. 2014. Elementary Statistics, 12th ed. Boston, MA: Pearson.

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