toxo {nspmix}R Documentation

Toxoplasmosis Data

Description

Contains the number of subjects testing positively for toxoplasmosis in 34 cities of El Salvador, with various rainfalls.

Format

A numeric matrix with four columns:

city: city identification code.

y: the number of subjects testing positively for toxoplasmosis.

n: the number of subjects tested.

rainfall: the annual rainfall of the city, in meters.

References

Efron, B. (1986). Double exponential families and their use in generalized linear regression. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 81, 709-721.

Aitkin, M. (1996). A general maximum likelihood analysis of overdispersion in generalised linear models. Statistics and Computing, 6, 251-262.

Wang, Y. (2010). Maximum likelihood computation for fitting semiparametric mixture models. Statistics and Computing, 20, 75-86.

See Also

mlogit,cnmms.

Examples



data(toxo)
x = mlogit(toxo)
cnmms(x)
[Package nspmix version 1.5-0 Index]