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tobacco: Tobacco Use and Health - Simulated Dataset

Description

A simulated datasets of 1,000 subjects, with the following variables:

Usage

data(tobacco)

Format

A data frame with 1000 rows and 9 variables

Details

• gender Factor with 2 levels: “F” and “M”, having roughly 500 of each.

• age Numerical.

• age.gr Factor with 4 age categories.

• BMI Body Mass Index (numerical).

• smoker Factor (“Yes” / “No”).

• cigs.per.day Number of cigarettes smoked per day (numerical).

• diseased Factor (“Yes” / “No”).

• disease Character.

• samp.wgts Sampling weights (numerical).

A note on simulation: probability for an individual to fall into category “diseased” is based on an arbitrary function involving age, BMI and number of cigarettes per day.

A copy of this dataset is also available in French under the name “tabagisme”.