ohio {faraway}

Ohio Children Wheeze Status

Description

The ohio data frame has 2148 rows and 4 columns. The dataset is a subset of the six-city study, a longitudinal study of the health effects of air pollution.

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

resp

an indicator of wheeze status (1=yes, 0=no)

id

a numeric vector for subject id

age

a numeric vector of age, 0 is 9 years old

smoke

an indicator of maternal smoking at the first year of the study

References

Fitzmaurice, G.M. and Laird, N.M. (1993) A likelihood-based method for analyzing longitudinal binary responses, Biometrika 80: 141–151.