vcd (version 1.1-1)

MSPatients: Diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis

Description

Data from Westlund & Kurland (1953) on the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS): two samples of patients, one from Winnipeg and one from New Orleans, were each rated by two neurologists (one from each city) in four diagnostic categories.

Usage

data("MSPatients")

format

A 3-dimensional array resulting from cross-tabulating 218 observations on 3 variables. The variables and their levels are as follows:

rll{ No Name Levels 1 New Orleans Neurologist Certain, Probable, Possible, Doubtful 2 Winnipeg Neurologist Certain, Probable, Possible, Doubtful 3 Patients Winnipeg, New Orleans }

source

M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data: http://euclid.psych.yorku.ca/ftp/sas/vcd/catdata/msdiag.sas

References

K. B. Westlund & L. T. Kurland (1953), Studies on multiple sclerosis in Winnipeg, Manitoba and New Orleans, Louisiana, American Journal of Hygiene, 57, 380--396.

M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data. SAS Institute, Cary, NC.

Examples

data("MSPatients")
## best visualized using a resized device, e.g. using:
## get(getOption("device"))(width = 12)
pushViewport(viewport(layout = grid.layout(ncol = 2)))
pushViewport(viewport(layout.pos.col = 1))
agreementplot(t(MSPatients[,,1]), main = "Winnipeg Patients",
              newpage = FALSE)
popViewport()
pushViewport(viewport(layout.pos.col = 2))
agreementplot(t(MSPatients[,,2]), main = "New Orleans Patients",
              newpage = FALSE)
popViewport(2)
dev.off()