fastR (version 0.10.3)

familySmoking: Family smoking

Description

A cross-tabulation of whether a student smokes and how many of his or her parents smoke from a study conducted in the 1960's.

Format

A data frame with 5375 observations on the following 2 variables.

• Student a factor with levels DoesNotSmoke Smokes

• Parents a factor with levels NeitherSmokes OneSmokes BothSmoke

References

The data also appear in

Brigitte Baldi and David S. Moore, The Practice of Statistics in the Life Sciences, Freeman, 2009.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(familySmoking)
xchisq.test( xtabs(~Parents + Student, familySmoking) )

# }