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VGAM (version 0.9-1)

backPain: Data on Back Pain Prognosis, from Anderson (1984)

Description

Data from a study of patients suffering from back pain. Prognostic variables were recorded at presentation and progress was categorised three weeks after treatment.

Usage

data(backPain)

Arguments

source

http://ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode/s419001.html

The data set and this help file was copied from gnm so that a vignette in VGAM could be run; the analysis is described in Yee (2010).

References

Anderson, J. A. (1984) Regression and Ordered Categorical Variables. J. R. Statist. Soc. B, 46(1), 1-30.

Yee, T. W. (2010) The VGAM package for categorical data analysis. Journal of Statistical Software, 32, 1--34. http://www.jstatsoft.org/v32/i10/.

Examples

Run this code
summary(backPain)

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