snore:
Snoring and heart disease contingency data
Description
Norton and Dunn (1985) compiled data from four family practice clinics in Toronto to quantify the association between snoring and heart disease for 2484 subjects.
Format
A data frame with 2484 observations on the following 3 variables.
snoring- A factor with levels
every.night nearly.ever.night never occasional ord.snoring- Agresti (21012) transformed the explanatory levels to ordinal values in his analysis of this data.
disease- Presence/absence of heart disease
Source
Norton, P. G., and E. V. Dunn (1985) Snoring as a risk factor for disease: an
epidemiological survey. British Medical Journal 291: 630-632.