Frequencies of various malformations of the central nervous system
 recorded on live births in South Wales, UK. Study was designed
 to determine the effect of water hardness on the incidence of
 such malformations.

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Books are "Practical Regression and ANOVA in R" on CRAN, "Linear Models with R" published 1st Ed. August 2004, 2nd Ed. July 2014 by CRC press, ISBN 9781439887332, and "Extending the Linear Model with R" published by CRC press in 1st Ed. December 2005 and 2nd Ed. March 2016, ISBN 9781584884248.

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cns function

A data frame with 16 observations on the following 7 variables.<dl>
 <dt>Area</dt>
<dd>a factor with levels <code>Cardiff</code> <code>GlamorganC</code>
 <code>GlamorganE</code> <code>GlamorganW</code> <code>MonmouthOther</code>
 <code>MonmouthV</code> <code>Newport</code> <code>Swansea</code> being areas of
 South Wales</dd> <dt>NoCNS</dt>
<dd>count of births with no CNS problem</dd> <dt>An</dt>
<dd>count of Anencephalus births</dd> <dt>Sp</dt>
<dd>count of Spina Bifida births</dd> <dt>Other</dt>
<dd>count of other CNS births</dd> <dt>Water</dt>
<dd>water hardeness</dd> <dt>Work</dt>
<dd>a factor with levels <code>Manual</code> <code>NonManual</code>
 being the type of work done by the parents</dd> 
</dl>

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Malformations of the central nervous system — cns

A data frame with 16 observations on the following 7 variables.<dl>
 <dt>Area</dt>
<dd>a factor with levels <code>Cardiff</code> <code>GlamorganC</code>
 <code>GlamorganE</code> <code>GlamorganW</code> <code>MonmouthOther</code>
 <code>MonmouthV</code> <code>Newport</code> <code>Swansea</code> being areas of
 South Wales</dd>

 <dt>NoCNS</dt>
<dd>count of births with no CNS problem</dd>

 <dt>An</dt>
<dd>count of Anencephalus births</dd>

 <dt>Sp</dt>
<dd>count of Spina Bifida births</dd>

 <dt>Other</dt>
<dd>count of other CNS births</dd>

 <dt>Water</dt>
<dd>water hardeness</dd>

 <dt>Work</dt>
<dd>a factor with levels <code>Manual</code> <code>NonManual</code>
 being the type of work done by the parents</dd>

 
</dl>

cns: Malformations of the central nervous system

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