Lead {BSDA}

Lead levels in children's blood whose parents worked in a battery factory

Description

Data for Example 1.17

Usage

Lead

Format

A data frame/tibble with 66 observations on the two variables

group

a character vector with values exposed and control

lead

a numeric vector indicating the level of lead in children's blood (in micrograms/dl)

Source

Morton, D. et al. (1982), "Lead Absorption in Children of Employees in a Lead-Related Industry," American Journal of Epidemiology, 155, 549-555.

References

Kitchens, L. J. (2003) Basic Statistics and Data Analysis. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, a division of Thomson Learning.

Examples

boxplot(lead ~ group, data = Lead, col = topo.colors(2))