rpart (version 4.1-13)

kyphosis: Data on Children who have had Corrective Spinal Surgery

Description

The kyphosis data frame has 81 rows and 4 columns. representing data on children who have had corrective spinal surgery

Usage

kyphosis

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

Kyphosis

a factor with levels absent present indicating if a kyphosis (a type of deformation) was present after the operation.

Age

in months

Number

the number of vertebrae involved

Start

the number of the first (topmost) vertebra operated on.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
fit <- rpart(Kyphosis ~ Age + Number + Start, data = kyphosis)
fit2 <- rpart(Kyphosis ~ Age + Number + Start, data = kyphosis,
              parms = list(prior = c(0.65, 0.35), split = "information"))
fit3 <- rpart(Kyphosis ~ Age + Number + Start, data=kyphosis,
              control = rpart.control(cp = 0.05))
par(mfrow = c(1,2), xpd = TRUE)
plot(fit)
text(fit, use.n = TRUE)
plot(fit2)
text(fit2, use.n = TRUE)
# }