cardiac {SMPracticals}

Mortality Rates for Cardiac Surgery on Babies at 12 Hospitals

Description

The title should be self-explanatory.

Usage

data(cardiac)

Format

A data frame with 12 observations on the following 2 variables.

r

Number of deaths

m

Number of operations

Source

Spiegelhalter, D. J., Thomas, A., Best, N. G. and W. R. Gilks (1996) BUGS 0.5 Examples Volume 1 (Version ii). Cambridge: MRC Biostatistics Unit. Page 15.

References

Davison, A. C. (2003) Statistical Models. Cambridge University Press. Page 579.