coalminers

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

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An implementation of about 6 major classes of
statistical regression models. At the heart of it are the
vector generalized linear and additive model (VGLM/VGAM)
classes, and the book "Vector Generalized Linear and
Additive Models: With an Implementation in R" (Yee, 2015)
<DOI:10.1007/978-1-4939-2818-7>
gives details of the statistical framework and VGAM package.
Currently only fixed-effects models are implemented,
i.e., no random-effects models. Many (150+) models and
distributions are estimated by maximum likelihood estimation
(MLE) or penalized MLE, using Fisher scoring. VGLMs can be
loosely thought of as multivariate GLMs. VGAMs are data-driven
VGLMs (i.e., with smoothing). The other classes are RR-VGLMs
(reduced-rank VGLMs), quadratic RR-VGLMs, reduced-rank VGAMs,
RCIMs (row-column interaction models)---these classes perform
constrained and unconstrained quadratic ordination (CQO/UQO)
models in ecology, as well as constrained additive ordination
(CAO). Note that these functions are subject to change;
see the NEWS and ChangeLog files for latest changes.

Thomas Yee

VGAM

Vector Generalized Linear and Additive Models

coalminers function

A data frame with 9 age groups with the following 5 columns.<dl class="dl-horizontal">
 <dt>BW</dt><dd>Counts with breathlessness and wheeze.</dd>
 <dt>BnW</dt><dd>Counts with breathlessness but no wheeze.</dd>
 <dt>nBW</dt><dd>Counts with no breathlessness but wheeze.</dd>
 <dt>nBnW</dt><dd>Counts with neither breathlessness or wheeze.</dd>
 <dt>age</dt><dd>Age of the coal miners (actually, the
 midpoints of the 5-year category ranges).</dd>
 </dl>

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Breathlessness and Wheeze Amongst Coalminers Data — coalminers

A data frame with 9 age groups with the following 5 columns.<dl class='dl-horizontal'>
 <dt>BW</dt><dd>Counts with breathlessness and wheeze.</dd>
 <dt>BnW</dt><dd>Counts with breathlessness but no wheeze.</dd>
 <dt>nBW</dt><dd>Counts with no breathlessness but wheeze.</dd>
 <dt>nBnW</dt><dd>Counts with neither breathlessness or wheeze.</dd>
 <dt>age</dt><dd>Age of the coal miners (actually, the
 midpoints of the 5-year category ranges).</dd>
 </dl>

coalminers: Breathlessness and Wheeze Amongst Coalminers Data

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