stat340: Data and functions for BIAS at NMBU

#' hospital: Caring for Hospital Patients
#'
#' The coronary care unit at Bayonet Point Hospital in Florida investigated the
#' relationship between the number of factors per patient and the patient's
#' length of stay. The factors are any medical item used in the care of the
#' hospital patients, such as needles, medicaments, intravenous fluid etc. This
#' is data for a random sample of 50 coronary care patients.
#'
#' @format A data frame with 50 observations (rows) and 2 variables (columns).
#'
#' \tabular{llllr}{
#'   \tab \bold{Column name} \tab \bold{Data type} \tab \bold{Description} \tab \bold{Values}\cr
#'   \code{[,1]} \tab \code{Num_factors} \tab integer \tab Number of medical items \tab (55 - 525)\cr
#'   \code{[,2]} \tab \code{Stay_length} \tab integer \tab Length of hospital stay in days \tab (2 - 15)
#' }
#'
#' @details
#'
#' This data is from Exercise 3.68 in A second course in statistics: Regression
#' Analysis, 7th edition.
#'
#' @examples
#'
#' # Structure of the object
#' str(hospital)
#'
#' # Scatterplot matrix
#' pairs(hospital)
#'
#' @source
#'
#' Mendenhall, W., Sincich, T. (2012) \emph{A second course in statistics:
#' Regression Analysis, 7th edition.} Pearson Education.
#'
#' @docType data
#' @keywords datasets
#' @name hospital
#' @usage hospital
#'
"hospital"