CHD {HRW}

Coronory heart disease

Description

The CHD data frame has data on coronary heart disease status, cholesterol level measurements and age. Further details are given in the 1996 ‘Journal of the American Statistical Association’ article by Roeder, Carroll and Lindsay (full reference below).

Usage

data(CHD)

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

CHD

indicator of coronary heart disease status:
0 = patient does not have coronary heart disease,
1 = patient has coronary heart disease.

LDL

low density lipoprotein cholesterol level.

TC

total cholesterol level.

age

age of patient in years.

Source

Roeder, K., Carroll, R.J. and Lindsay, B.G. (1996). A semiparametric mixture approach to case-control studies with errors in covariables. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 91, 722-732.

References

Richardson, S., Leblond, L., Jaussent, I. and Green, P.J. (2002). Mixture models in measurement error problems, with reference to epidemiological studies. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 163, 549-566.

Examples

library(HRW) ; data(CHD)
pairs(CHD)