infection: infection: Parasite Infections

In thoree/stat340: Data and functions for BIAS at NMBU

infection: Parasite Infections

Description

This data set contains information on gender, weight, and age of individuals with and without a parasite infection.

Usage

infection

Format

A data frame with 81 observations (rows) and 4 variables (columns).

	Column name	Data type	Description	Values
[,1]	infected	integer	Parasite infection, 1 if infected, otherwise 0	(0, 1)
[,2]	age	integer	The age of the individual	(1 - 206)
[,3]	weight	integer	The weight of the individual	(1 - 18)
[,4]	sex	factor	The gender	(female male)

infected is the binary response variable, and age, weight (both continuous) and sex (categorical) are explanatory variables.

Source

⁠The R book⁠, M.J. Crawley, Wiley, 2013.

Examples

# The relationship between infection and gender
table(infection$infected, infection$sex)

# Get two boxplots next to each other
par(mfrow = c(1, 2))
boxplot(weight ~ infected, data = infection, col = "lightgreen")
boxplot(age ~ infected, data = infection, col = "lightgreen")

# Reset to default settings
par(mfrow = c(1, 1))

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