vcdExtra (version 0.8.7)

HospVisits: Hospital Visits Data

Description

Length of stay in hospital for 132 schizophrenic patients, classified by visiting patterns, originally from Wing (1962).

Format

A 3 by 3 frequency table, with format:

table [1:3, 1:3] 43 6 9 16 11 18 3 10 16
- attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2
..$ visit: chr [1:3] "Regular" "Infrequent" "Never"
..$ stay : chr [1:3] "2-9" "10-19" "20+"

Details

Both table variables can be considered ordinal. The variable visit refers to visiting patterns recorded hospital. The category labels are abbreviations of those given by Goodman (1983); e.g., "Regular" is short for “received visitors regularly or patient went home”. The variable stay refers to length of stay in hospital, in year groups.

References

Wing, J. K. (1962). Institutionalism in Mental Hospitals, British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 1 (1), 38-51.

See Also

ca

Examples

data(HospVisits)
mosaic(HospVisits, gp=shading_Friendly)

if(require(ca)){
  ca(HospVisits)
  # surprisingly 1D !
  plot(ca(HospVisits))
  }