nickel

The data concern a cohort of nickel smelting workers in South Wales,
 with information on exposure, follow-up period, and cause of death.

datasets

Data sets and scripts for text examples and exercises in
P. Dalgaard (2008), `Introductory Statistics with R', 2nd ed., Springer Verlag, ISBN 978-0387790534.

Peter Dalgaard

ISwR

Introductory Statistics with R

nickel function

A data frame containing 679 observations of the following 7 variables:<dl>
 <dt><code>id</code></dt>
<dd>subject identifier (numeric).</dd> <dt><code>icd</code></dt>
<dd>ICD cause of death if dead, 0 otherwise (numeric).</dd> <dt><code>exposure</code></dt>
<dd>exposure index for workplace (numeric)</dd> <dt><code>dob</code></dt>
<dd>date of birth (numeric).</dd>
 
 <dt><code>age1st</code></dt>
<dd>age at first exposure (numeric).</dd>
 
 <dt><code>agein</code></dt>
<dd>age at start of follow-up (numeric).</dd>
 
 <dt><code>ageout</code></dt>
<dd>age at end of follow-up (numeric).</dd>
 
 
</dl>

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Nickel smelters in South Wales — nickel

A data frame containing 679 observations of the following 7 variables:<dl>
 <dt><code>id</code></dt>
<dd>subject identifier (numeric).</dd>

 <dt><code>icd</code></dt>
<dd>ICD cause of death if dead, 0 otherwise (numeric).</dd>

 <dt><code>exposure</code></dt>
<dd>exposure index for workplace (numeric)</dd>

 <dt><code>dob</code></dt>
<dd>date of birth (numeric).</dd>
 
 <dt><code>age1st</code></dt>
<dd>age at first exposure (numeric).</dd>
 
 <dt><code>agein</code></dt>
<dd>age at start of follow-up (numeric).</dd>
 
 <dt><code>ageout</code></dt>
<dd>age at end of follow-up (numeric).</dd>
 
 
</dl>

nickel: Nickel smelters in South Wales

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