conting (version 1.7)

heart: Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease: A Complete 2^6 Table

Description

1841 men are cross-classified according to six risk factors for coronary heart disease: smoking (A; 2 levels), strenuous mental work (B; 2 levels), strenuous physical work (C; 2 levels), systolic blood pressure (D; 2 levels), ratio of alpha and beta lipoproteins (E; 2 levels) and family anamnesis of coronary heart disease (F; 2 levels).

Usage

data(heart)

Format

A "data.frame" with 64 observations on the following 7 variables.

y

Counts in each cell of table.

A

A factor with levels yes no indicating smoking status.

B

A factor with levels yes no indicating strenuous mental work.

C

A factor with levels yes no indicating strenuous physical work.

D

A factor with levels yes no indicating systolic blood pressure.

E

A factor with levels yes no indicating high ratio of alpha and beta lipoproteins.

F

A factor with levels yes no indicating a family anamnesis of coronary heart disease.

Details

For more details on this data see Edwards & Havranek (1985).

For details on the function bcct applied to this data, see Overstall & King (2014).

References

Overstall, A.M. & King, R. (2014) conting: An R package for Bayesian analysis of complete and incomplete contingency tables. Journal of Statistical Software, 58 (7), 1--27. http://www.jstatsoft.org/v58/i07/

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(heart)
summary(heart)
# }