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.
Usage
ex1917
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 6 observations on the following 4 variables.
BodyMass
a factor with levels "high",
"low" and "medium"
Drinking
a factor with levels "high" and
"low"
Cases
number of women with breast cancer
Controls
number of women without breast cancer
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 Epidemiology131(1):
6--14.