evidence (version 0.8.10)

Snoring: Data on the incidence of hypertension and three indicator variables.

Description

A total of 433 persons were tested for hypertension and checked for whether they were smokers, obese, or snored. The data are in Altman(1991).

Usage

data(Snoring)

Format

A data frame with 8 observations on the following 5 variables:

smoking

did the person smoke (1) or not (0)?

obese

was the person obese (1) or not (0)?

snoring

did the person snore (1) or not (0)?

n

the number of persons observed with these covariates

hypert

did the person suffer from hypertension (1) or not (0)?

References

van Hulst, R. 2018. Evaluating Scientific Evidence. ms.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(Snoring)
fit <- glm(cbind(hypert, n - hypert) ~ smoking + obese + snoring,
  family=binomial, data=Snoring)
summary(fit)
# }