coalminers

Coalminers who are smokers without radiological pneumoconiosis,
 classified by age, breathlessness and wheeze.

datasets

An implementation of about 6 major classes of
statistical regression models. The central algorithm is
Fisher scoring and iterative reweighted least squares.
At the heart of this package are the vector generalized linear
and additive model (VGLM/VGAM) classes. VGLMs can be loosely
thought of as multivariate GLMs. VGAMs are data-driven
VGLMs that use smoothing. The book "Vector Generalized
Linear and Additive Models: With an Implementation in R"
(Yee, 2015) <DOI:10.1007/978-1-4939-2818-7> gives details of
the statistical framework and the package. Currently only
fixed-effects models are implemented. Many (150+) models and
distributions are estimated by maximum likelihood estimation
(MLE) or penalized MLE. The other classes are RR-VGLMs
(reduced-rank VGLMs), quadratic RR-VGLMs, reduced-rank VGAMs,
RCIMs (row-column interaction models)---these classes perform
constrained and unconstrained quadratic ordination (CQO/UQO)
models in ecology, as well as constrained additive ordination
(CAO). Note that these functions are subject to change;
see the NEWS and ChangeLog files for latest changes.

Thomas Yee

VGAM

Vector Generalized Linear and Additive Models

Cleve Moler

coalminers function

A data frame with 9 age groups with the following 5 columns.<dl class="dl-horizontal">
 <dt>BW</dt><dd>Counts with breathlessness and wheeze.</dd>
 <dt>BnW</dt><dd>Counts with breathlessness but no wheeze.</dd>
 <dt>nBW</dt><dd>Counts with no breathlessness but wheeze.</dd>
 <dt>nBnW</dt><dd>Counts with neither breathlessness or wheeze.</dd>
 <dt>age</dt><dd>Age of the coal miners (actually, the
 midpoints of the 5-year category ranges).</dd>
 </dl>

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Breathlessness and Wheeze Amongst Coalminers Data — coalminers

A data frame with 9 age groups with the following 5 columns.<dl class='dl-horizontal'>
 <dt>BW</dt><dd>Counts with breathlessness and wheeze.</dd>
 <dt>BnW</dt><dd>Counts with breathlessness but no wheeze.</dd>
 <dt>nBW</dt><dd>Counts with no breathlessness but wheeze.</dd>
 <dt>nBnW</dt><dd>Counts with neither breathlessness or wheeze.</dd>
 <dt>age</dt><dd>Age of the coal miners (actually, the
 midpoints of the 5-year category ranges).</dd>
 </dl>

coalminers: Breathlessness and Wheeze Amongst Coalminers Data

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