depress {lboxcox}

Depression dataset

Description

The depress data frame has 8,893 rows and 5 columns from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2009–2010.

Usage

depress

Format

Sample survey data

depression

binary response variable indicating whether the participant has depression (=1) or not (=0)

mercury

a numeric vector giving the log-transformed total blood mercury in micro-grams per litre

age

0 of particiapant is female and 1 if they are male

gender

age of the participant

weight

a numeric vector giving the sampling-weight.

Source

Xing, L., Zhang, X., Burstyn, I., & Gustafson, P. (2021). On logistic Box–Cox regression for flexibly estimating the shape and strength of exposure‐disease relationships. Canadian Journal of Statistics, 49(3), 808-825.