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Lung capacity
Description
The lung capacity of children.
Usage
data(LungCap)
Format
A data frame with 654 rows (each child) and 5 columns:
- Age
The age of the child, in years
- FEV
The forced expiratory volume, in litres
- Ht
The height, in inches
- Gender
The gender of the child; one of
F
orM
- Smoke
Whether the child is a smoker; one of
0
(non-smoker) or1
(smoker)
Source
Kahn, M. (2003) Data Sleuth, STATS, 37, 24.
Ira B. Tager, Scott T. Weiss, Alvaro Munoz, Bernard Rosner, and Frank E. Speizer (1983). Longitudinal study of the effects of maternal smoking on pulmonary function in children. New England Journal of Medicine, 309(12):699–703.
References
Kahn, Michael (2005). An exhalent problem for teaching statistics. The Journal of Statistical Education, 13(2). Available on-line.
[Package SRMData version 1.0.1 Index]