This data set consists of 654 observations on children aged 3 to 19. Forced Expiratory Volume (FEV), which is a measure of lung capacity, is the variable in interest. Age and height are two continuous predictors. Sex and smoke are two categorical predictors.

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Routines doing cone projection and quadratic programming, as well as doing estimation and inference for constrained parametric regression and shape-restricted regression problems.

Xiyue Liao

coneproj

Primal or Dual Cone Projections with Routines for Constrained
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FEV function

A data frame with 654 observations on the following 5 variables.
 <dl>
 <dt><code>age</code></dt><dd>Age of the 654 children.</dd> <dt><code>FEV</code></dt><dd>Forced expiratory volume(liters).</dd> <dt><code>height</code></dt><dd>Height(inches).</dd> <dt><code>sex</code></dt><dd>Female is 0. Male is 1.</dd> <dt><code>smoke</code></dt><dd>Nonsmoker is 0. Smoker is 1.</dd> </dl>

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Rosner, B. (1999) Fundamentals of Biostatistics, 5th Ed., Pacific Grove, CA: Duxbur. Michael J. Kahn (2005) An Exhalent Problem for Teaching Statistics Journal of Statistics Education Volume 13, Number 2.

FEV: Forced Expiratory Volume

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