heart {catdata}R Documentation

Heart Disease

Description

A retrospective sample of males in a heart-disease high-risk region of the Western Cape, South Africa.

Usage

data(heart)

Format

A data frame with 462 observations on the following 10 variables.

y

coronary heart disease (yes = 1, no = 0)

sbp

systolic blood pressure

tobacco

cumulative tobacco

ldl

low density lipoprotein cholesterol

adiposity

adiposity

famhist

family history of heart disease

typea

type-A behavior

obesity

obesity

alcohol

current alcohol consumption

age

age at onset

References

South African Heart Disease dataset
Hastie, T., Tibshirani, R., and Friedman, J. (2001):
Elements of Statistical Learning; Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction, Springer-Verlag, New York

Examples

##example of analysis:
if(interactive()){vignette("regsel-heartdisease1")}
if(interactive()){vignette("regsel-heartdisease2")}
if(interactive()){vignette("regsel-heartdisease3")}
if(interactive()){vignette("regsel-heartdisease4")}
if(interactive()){vignette("regsel-heartdisease5")}
if(interactive()){vignette("regsel-heartdisease6")}

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