vcdExtra (version 0.5-2)

Mental: Mental impariment and parents SES

Description

A 6 x 4 contingency table representing the cross-classification of mental health status (mental) of 1660 young New York residents by their parents' socioeconomic status (ses).

Usage

data(Mental)

source

Haberman, S. J. The Analysis of Qualitative Data: New Developments, Academic Press, 1979, Vol. II, p. 375. Srole, L.; Langner, T. S.; Michael, S. T.; Kirkpatrick, P.; Opler, M. K. & Rennie, T. A. C. Mental Health in the Metropolis: The Midtown Manhattan Study, NYU Press, 1978, p. 289

Details

Both ses and mental can be treated as ordered factors or integer scores. For ses, 1="High" and 6="Low".

References

Friendly, M. Visualizing Categorical Data, Cary, NC: SAS Institute, 2000, Appendix B.7.

Examples

data(Mental)
str(Mental)
(Mental.tab <- xtabs(Freq ~ ses+mental, data=Mental))

# mosaic and sieve plots
mosaic(Mental.tab, gp=shading_Friendly)
sieve(Mental.tab, gp=shading_Friendly)

library(ca)
plot(ca(Mental.tab), main="Mental impairment & SES")
title(xlab="Dim 1", ylab="Dim 2")