VGAM (version 0.7-10)

coalminers: Breathlessness and Wheeze Amongst Coalminers Data

Description

Coalminers who are smokers without radiological pneumoconiosis, classified by age, breathlessness and wheeze.

Usage

data(coalminers)

source

Ashford, J. R. and Sowden, R. R. (1970) Multi-variate probit analysis. Biometrics, 26, 535--546.

Details

The data were published in Ashford and Sowden (1970). A more recent analysis is McCullagh and Nelder (1989, Section 6.6).

References

McCullagh, P. and Nelder, J. A. (1989) Generalized Linear Models. 2nd ed. London: Chapman & Hall.

Examples

str(coalminers)