Breathlessness and Wheeze Amongst Coalminers Data

Coalminers who are smokers without radiological pneumoconiosis, classified by age, breathlessness and wheeze.

data(coalminers)

Format

A data frame with 9 age groups with the following 5 columns.

BW

Counts with breathlessness and wheeze.

BnW

Counts with breathlessness but no wheeze.

nBW

Counts with no breathlessness but wheeze.

nBnW

Counts with neither breathlessness or wheeze.

age

Age of the coal miners (actually, the midpoints of the 5-year category ranges).

Details

The data were published in Ashford and Sowden (1970). A more recent analysis is McCullagh and Nelder (1989, Section 6.6).

Source

Ashford, J. R. and Sowden, R. R. (1970) Multi-variate probit analysis. Biometrics, 26, 535–546.

References

McCullagh, P. and Nelder, J. A. (1989). Generalized Linear Models. 2nd ed. London: Chapman & Hall.

Examples

str(coalminers)
#> 'data.frame':	9 obs. of  5 variables:
#>  $ BW  : int  9 23 54 121 169 269 404 406 372
#>  $ BnW : int  7 9 19 48 54 88 117 152 106
#>  $ nBW : int  95 105 177 257 273 324 245 225 132
#>  $ nBnW: int  1841 1654 1863 2357 1778 1712 1324 967 526
#>  $ age : int  22 27 32 37 42 47 52 57 62