ex1917: Alcohol Consumption and Breast Cancer---A Retrospective Study
Description
Dataset from a study which investigated the added risk of breast
cancer due to alcohol consumption. A sample of confirmed breast cancer
patients were compared with a sample of cancer free women who were
close in age and from the same neighborhood as the cases. Data was
collected on the alcohol consumption and body mass of both sets of
women.source
Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2013). The Statistical Sleuth: A
Course in Methods of Data Analysis (3rd ed), Cengage Learning.References
Rosenberg, L., Palmer, J.R., Miller, D.R., Clarke, E.A. and Shapiro,
S. (1990). A Case-Control Study of Alcoholic Beverage Consumption and
Breast Cancer, American Journal of Epidemiology 131(1):
6--14.