Infants born data with a specific congenital anomaly in Massachusetts
Usage
data(Congenital)
Arguments
Format
A five lists data with 31 variables.
Details
An epidemiological data with five distinct types of sources, which contains: obstetric records (183 cases);
other hospital records (215 cases); list maintained by state Department of Public Health (36 cases);
list maintained by state Department of Mental Health (263cases), and records by special schools (252 cases).
The total number of cases identified was 537.
References
Fienberg, S. E. (1972). The multiple recapture census for closed populations and incomplete 2k contingency tables. Biometrika, 59: 591-603.
Wittes, J. T., Colton, T., and Sidel, V. W. (1974). Capture-recapture methods for assessing the completeness of case ascertainment when using multiple information sources. Journal of Chronic Diseases, 27: 25.