Rfit (version 0.17)

CardioRiskFactors: Cardiovascular risk factors

Description

Data from a study to investigate assocation between uric acid and various cardiovascular risk factors in developing countries (Heritier et. al. 2009). There are 474 men and 524 women aged 25-64.

Usage

data(CardioRiskFactors)

source

Heritier, S., Cantoni, E., Copt, S., and Victoria-Feser, M. (2009), Robust Methods in Biostatistics, New York: John Wiley & Sons.

Conen, D., Wietlisbach, V., Bovet, P., Shamlaye, C., Riesen, W., Paccaud, F., and Burnier, M. (2004), Prevalence of hyperuricemia and relation of serum uric acid with cardiovascular risk factors in a developing country. BMC Public Health, http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/4/9.

Details

Data set and description taken from Heritier et. al. (2009) (c.f. Conen et. al. 2004). Some not discussed (in Section 3.5) of the text and their persummed meaning is listed followed by (?).

Examples

data(CardioRiskFactors)
fitF<-rfit(Uric~bmi+sys+choles+ldl+sex+smok+alco+apoa+trig+age,data=CardioRiskFactors)
fitR<-rfit(Uric~bmi+sys+choles+ldl+sex,data=CardioRiskFactors)
drop.test(fitF,fitR)
summary(fitR)