kyphosis: A classic example dataset for GAMs
Description
Data on the results of a spinal operation "laminectomy" on children, to
correct for a condition called "kyphosis"; see Hastie and
Tibshirani (1990) for detailsFormat
A data frame with 81 observations on the following 4 variables.
- Kyphosis
- a response factor with levels
absent
present
.
- Age
- of child in months, a numeric vector
- Number
- of vertebra involved in the operation,a numeric vector
- Start
- level of the operation, a numeric vector