Aspirin


Frequency of cancer in 39,876 women taking and not taking aspirin.


datasets

The abd package contains data sets and sample code for The
Analysis of Biological Data by Michael Whitlock and Dolph Schluter (2009;
Roberts & Company Publishers).

Kevin M Middleton

The Analysis of Biological Data

Aspirin function

A data frame with 39876 observations on the following <dl>
<dt>treatment</dt><dd>a factor with levels <code>Aspirin</code> and
<code>Placebo</code></dd>
 <dt>cancer</dt><dd>a factor with levels <code>no</code> and
<code>yes</code></dd>
 </dl>

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Cook, N.R., I. Lee, J.M. Gaziano, D. Gordon, P.M. Ridker, J.E.
Manson, C.H. Hennekens, and J.E. Buring. 2005. Low-dose aspirin in the
primary prevention of cancer. <em>Journal of the American Medical
Association</em> 294: 47-55.

Aspirin: Effects of Aspirin on Cancer Rates

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