GSE (version 4.2-1)

calcium: Calcium data

Description

The Calcium data is from the article by Holcomb and Spalsbury (2005). The dataset used for class was compiled by Boyd, Delost, and Holcomb (1998) for the use of a study to determine if significant gender differences existed between subjects 65 years of age and older with regard to calcium, inorganic phosphorous, and alkaline phosphatase levels. Although the original data from Boyd, Delost, and Holcomb (1998) had observations needing investigation, Holcomb and Spalsbury (2005) further massaged the original data to include data problems and issues that have arisen in other research projects for pedagogical purposes.

Usage

data(calcium)

Format

A data frame with 178 observations on the following 8 variables.

obsno	Patient Observation Number
age	Age in years
sex	1=Male, 2=Female
alkphos	Alkaline Phosphatase International Units/Liter
lab	1=Metpath; 2=Deyor; 3=St. Elizabeth's; 4=CB Rouche; 5=YOH; 6=Horizon
cammol	Calcium mmol/L
phosmmol	Inorganic Phosphorus mmol/L
agegroup	Age group 1=65-69; 2=70-74; 3=75-79; 4=80-84; 5=85-89 Years

References

Boyd, J., Delost, M., and Holcomb, J., (1998). Calcium, phosphorus, and alkaline phosphatase laboratory values of elderly subjects, Clinical Laboratory Science, 11, 223-227.

Holcomb, J., and Spalsbury, A. (2005), Teaching Students to Use Summary Statistics and Graphics to Clean and Analyze Data. Journal of Statistics Education, 13, Number 3.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
data(calcium)
## remove the categorical variables
calcium.cts <- subset(calcium, select=-c(obsno, sex, lab, agegroup) )
res <- GSE(calcium.cts)
getOutliers(res)
## able to identify majority of the contaminated cases identified 
## in the reference
}