Incidence of endometrial stromal polyps in \(k=70\) studys of female rats in control group of a 1977 study on the carcinogenic effects of a diabetic drug phenformin. For each of the \(k\) groups, \(y\) represents the number of rats who developed the tumors out of \(n\) total rats in the group.
data("rat")
A data frame of \((y_i, n_i)\) for \(i = 1,...,70\).
y
number of female rats in the \(i^{th}\) study who developed polyps/tumors
n
total number of rats in the \(i^{th}\) study
Gelman, A., Carlin, J.B., Stern, H.S., Dunson, D.B., Vehtari, A., and Rubin, D.B., 2014. Bayesian Data Analysis (Vol. 3). Boca Raton, FL: CRC press.
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