earinf {GLMsData}

Ear infections in swimmers

Description

The number of ear infections in swimmers

Usage

data(earinf)

Format

A data frame with 287 observations on the following 5 variables.

Swim

how often the swimmer swims in the ocean; a factor with levels Freq (frequently) and Occas (occasionally)

Loc

the reported usual swimming location; a factor with levels Beach and NonBeach

Age

the age group; a factor with levels 15-19, 20-24 and 25-29

Sex

the sex; a factor with levels Female and Male

NumInfec

the number of self-diagnosed ear infections; a numeric vector

Infec

whether there are self-diagnosed ear infections; a numeric vector where 0 means no self-reported infection, and 1 means at least one self-reported ear infection

Details

The data give the number of self-reported ear infections in the 1990 Pilot Surf/Health Study of nsw Water Board.

Source

This data file was downloaded from OzDASL (http://www.statsci.org/data/oz/earinf.html) where it was prepared by Dr Gordon Smyth from Hand et al (1994) Dataset 328.

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 328.

Examples

data(earinf)
summary(earinf)