spina: Persons born with Spina Bifida: An Incomplete 2 * 2 * 2 * 3 Table
Description
621 people born with Spina Bifida (a congenital disorder) in the state
of New York between 1969 and 1974 are observed by three sources:
birth certificates (S1); death certificates (S2); and medical
rehabilitation lists (S3). The people are also cross-classified
according to their ethnicity (eth; 3 levels).source
Madigan, D. & York, J.C. (1997) Methods for Estimation of the Size of a Closed Population.
Biometrika, 84 (1), 19--31.Details
See Madigan & York (1997), and the references therin, for more details on the study.
For details on the function bict applied to this data, see Overstall & King (2014).References
Overstall, A.M. & King, R. (2014) conting: An R package for Bayesian analysis of
complete and incomplete contingency tables. Journal of Statistical Software, 58 (7),
1--27. http://www.jstatsoft.org/v58/i07/