dwomen {GLMsData}

Depression and children

Description

The data give the number of women from a sample in Camberwell, South London, who developed depression in a one-year period

Usage

data(dwomen)

Format

A data frame with 8 observations on the following 4 variables.

Counts

the counts in each category; a numeric vector

Depression

whether depression was observed; a factor with levels Yes and No

SLE

whether a Severe Life Event was observed; a factor with levels Yes and No

Children

whether the woman had three children under 14; a factor with levels Yes and No

Details

The data give the number of women from a sample in Camberwell, South London, who developed depression in a one-year period.

Source

B. S. Everitt and A. M. R. Smith (1979) Interactions in a contingency tables: a brief discussion of alternative definitions. Psychological Medicine, 9, 581–583.

References

D. J. Hand, F. Daly, A. D. Lunn, K. J. McConway, and E. Ostrowski (1994) A Handbook of Small Data Sets, London: Chapman and Hall. Dataset 391 (second table).

Examples

data(dwomen)
summary(dwomen)